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in the woods on June the ninth. 



495 Cowbdrd — This bird is very 

 plentiful and few warblers' nests es- 

 cape them. 



517 Purple Finch — Fairly common. 



529 Gold Finch — Common. 



540 Vesper Sparrow — Very com- 

 mon. 



560 Chipping Sparrow — These are 

 the two common sparrows. 



563 Field Sparrow — Two nests with 

 eggs were found on June the seventh. 

 This is the first year we have noted 

 it. 



595 Rose-breasted Grosbeak — Fair- 

 ly common. No nests found. 



608 Scarlet Tanager — A pair were 

 seem on the ninth deep in the woods 

 and their incomplete nest was dis- 

 covered. 



613 Barn Swallow — Common. 



614 Tree Swallow — One pair seen. 

 616 Bank Swallow — Very common. 

 619 Cedar Wax-wing — Breeds com- 

 monly in July. 



624 Red-eyed Vireo — Common. 



636 Black and White Warbler- 

 Common. 



645 — Nashville Warbler — R a t h e r 

 common. Its song was heard several 

 times before any of the birds were 

 located, usually high up in the trees. 



655 Myrtle Warbler — The common- 

 est warbler. Nests in white and red 

 pine or cedar. I have yet to find one 

 of their nests without a cowbird's 

 egg or eggs in it. 



657 Magnolia Warbler — Uncommon. 

 June the twelfth four fresh eggs were 

 found in nest of grass stalks lined 

 with hair and decorated on the out- 

 side with cob-webs. It was placed 

 three feet up in the outer branches 

 of a hemlock on the edge of a clear- 

 ing. 



659 Chestnut-sided Warbler — Fair- 

 ly common in suitable localities. 



667 Black-throated Green Warbler 

 — Rather common. 



673 Prairie Warbler — Common in 

 other years, but scarce this year. A 

 nest with three eggs and two of the 

 Cow-bird was found in a clump of 

 Juniper on the fourteenth of June. 

 They were found with young in 1922, 

 constituting the first breeding record 

 for Canada. 



674 Oven Bird — Very common. 

 681d No. Yellow-throat — Common. 



On the fifteenth of June a nest was 

 located with four fresh eggs, situated 

 in a grass tussock along the river. 



686 Canadian Warbler — ^Fairly com- 

 mon in deep woods. 



C"7 Redstart — Quite common. 



722 Winlei Wren — Occasionally met 

 with in dark swampy woods. This 

 bird ranks with the best as a songster. 



735 Chickadee — Common. A nest 

 of young was found on the ninth of 

 June. 



759b Hermit Thrush — Rather com- 

 mon. A nest was found on the eighth 

 of June With four recently hatched 

 young. On the twelfth one was found 

 with four slightly incubated eggs. It 

 was made of leaves, bark and grasses, 

 lined with pine needles and sunk well 

 into the ground on the side of a bank 

 amongst second-growth. 



The author of the foregoing neg- 

 lected to sign his name to it. Will 

 he please forward it, that we may 

 give him the proper credit. 



R. M. B. 



