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Nest 5— Later in the day I circled 

 back to within a hundre 1 yards of the 

 above and there found what looked 

 like the foundation of another nest. 

 This situation was identical with the 

 other except being 35 feet up and only 

 three from main trunk and not well 

 concealed. This nest was completed 

 and contained two eggs on June 12. 

 Left it until the 19th and found that 

 only one more egg had been laid. 



Both the above sets are now before 

 me. The eggs resemble those of the 

 redstart except that the ground color 

 has a decided greenish tinge. The 

 nests differ greatly from any other 

 local breeding species, in fact, both 

 the site chosen and the general ex- 

 terior appearance of the nest strongly 

 suggests the Wood Pewee except the 

 lichens appear in blotches instead of a 

 thick covering and the nests are deep- 

 er and lined with tine strippings of 

 grape vine bark. They are not diffi- 

 cult to find but the work requires time 

 and practice because of the great 

 number of suitable trees. Except in 

 the case of nest three and one of the 

 old nests mentioned all were placed 

 upon limbs ranging from 1 to 1/^ 

 inches in diameter. 



This warbler does not leave until 

 you are on a level with her nest. She 

 then flutters nearly to the ground and 

 with an upward sweep alights upon a 

 lower branch of the nearest tree, aU 

 the time uttering a series of rapid 

 chirps. She then works upward from 

 branch to branch until above you, 

 then comes over to your tree and re- 

 mains within a few feet of you. By 

 this time the male is in evidence but 

 does not approach nearer than the near- 

 est neighboring tree. 



The Ceruleans prefer the hard wood 

 timber and keep well up in the trees. 

 They have little taste for the dark 

 depths below and I have never seen 

 them upon the ground except for the 

 purpose of drinking and bathing. 



They remain no longer than necessary 

 and dart up into the tree tops. They 

 join forces with the Golden-wings in 

 late July and disappear with them 

 during the last week of August. 

 J. Claire Wood, 

 Detroit, Michigan. 



Bird Sanctuaries of New Zealand. 



From J. Welsh, N. Fitzroy, Australia. 



HOMES FOR WINGLESS BIRDS. 



New Zealand has done two things 

 thoroughl}' — one is to preserve those 

 wingless birds so characteristic of the 

 country, and which, because of their 

 helplessness, would soon disappear as 

 settlement increased — the other is to 

 acclimatise the best game of other 

 countries. Thus, in turning own 

 Canadian moose in their mountains, 

 they brought a Canadian forester to 

 look after the young calves, and a 

 Scotch gatekeeper is now engaged 

 attending to the grouse. In the offi- 

 cial report of the Lands department 

 there are some twenty pages of notes 

 upon the wingless birds of New Zea- 

 land, contributed by Richard Henry, 

 the caretaker of Resolution Island, 

 one of the sanctuaries upon which 

 these interesting birds are being pro- 

 tected. Resolution Island, in Dusky 

 Sound, West Coast, discovered by 

 Captain Cook, is named after one of 

 the ships in which Cook made his 

 first voyage. There is material for a 

 charming little book on Nature in this 

 official document, the last place where 

 a Victorian, knowing something of the 

 character of his own Government re- 

 ports, would look for it. And Mr. 

 Henry's chat about the birds which 

 are in his charge, and have become, 

 in some instances, his pets and friends, 

 is so homely, so sympathetic, shows 

 so much of close and loving observa- 

 tion, that something material to the 

 literature of Nature in New Zealand 



