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island, but are becoming more so every 

 year. 



Bobolink. Quite common. Nesting 

 in hay-fields on parts of the island. 



Cowbird. These birds were very 

 abundant, especially so during the 

 month of August. They were in flocks 

 which sometimes contained two or 

 three hundred individuals. I found a 

 Song Sparrow's nest which contained 

 a Cowbird's egg. When the eggs 

 hatched the Cowbird grew so much 

 faster than the Sparrows that it soon 

 began to crowd them from the nest. 



Red-winged Blackbird. Nested in 

 swamp near our lake. 



Meadow-lark. A pair of these birds 

 had their nest in our base-ball field, 

 but it was destroyed by a mowing ma- 

 chine. 



Baltimore Oriole. Common. They 

 were nesting, but I did not succeed in 

 locating the nesting sites. 



Bronzed Grackle. Frequently seen. 



Goldfinch. This species was ob- 

 served a number of times. 



Vesper Sparrow. I saw a few along 

 the roads. 



White-throated Sparrow. Very com- 

 mon in July, but few were seen in 

 August. Males in full song in early 

 part of summer. One morning, while 

 on a' camping trip to Pinnacle Moun- 

 tain in southern Canada, I heard a 

 White-throat singing at four o'clock, 

 some time before the other birds had 

 awakened. 



Chipping Sparrow. One of these 

 birds had a nest in a small elm tree 

 near my tent. Boys would hang their 

 towels on the try to dry in the sun, 

 but the old birds were so quiet that 

 none of the boys knew that there was 

 a bird's nest there. The old birds 

 soon hatched their young and they 

 flew away. 



Song Sparrow. Three nests of this 

 species were found, all of them being 

 in red cedar trees, and two of them 

 were not more than three fee- from 

 the ground. 



Towhee. Common. Often seen 

 scratching in the leaves. 



Purple Martin. These fine l)irds 

 were very common and nearly every 

 farm-house on the island had a Mar- 

 tin box. All these "boxes seemed to 

 be occupied by the Martins. Only one 

 was observed that had been taken 

 over by the English Sparrows. 



Cliff Swallow. They built their 

 nests very close to a door through 

 which several hundred boys passed 

 each day. 



Barn Swallow. Abundant. One 

 barn that I visited had a fine colony 

 living there. The thing that interest- 

 ed me the most was the way the biras 

 got into tlie barn. A bird would come 

 at the barn, at top speed, and dart 

 through a hole about as big as a silver 

 dollar. 



Tree Swallow. Very common. Evi- 

 dently nesting near camp, though 1 

 found no nest locations. 



Cedar Waxwing. Seen feeding on ser- 

 vice berries (Amelanchier). One pair 

 had a nest in a red cedar tree near a 

 path. The old birds did not seem to 

 be afraid of the boys as they passed 

 by. 



Warbling Vireo. Seen and heard 

 many times. Fed mostly in poplar 

 trees. 



Yellow Warbler. A few were seen. 



Maryland Yellow-Throat. Common. 

 In a swamp, near our camp-grounds, 

 this was a common species. 



Myrtle Warbler. One was seen in 

 August in a red cedar tree. 



Redstart. Seen feeding about the 

 cedars. 



Catbird. Common One nest was 

 found in a red cedar tree. 



Brown Thrasher. Though it was 

 seen frequently, I would not call i' a 

 common species on the islan.l. 



White-breasted Nuthatch. A few 

 noted. 



Chickadee. Fairly common. 

 Hermit Thrush. Very common. 



