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ity over a road. A slight depressed 

 platform of small sticks, lined with 

 several dry leaves and walnut catkins 

 Female flushed; stayetl away in si- 

 lence while nest was robbed. 



2. Two fresh eggs, July 29, 189S, 

 Holraesburg: Nest seven feet up in 

 a willow along a creek and eight feet 

 out on a horizontal limb, four inches 

 thick, in a cluster of sprout. A plat- 

 form of small sticks and twigs, lined 

 with dead willow leaves; it measures 

 seven inches across the top, and was 

 depressed half an inch. The female 

 was flushed. 



3. Three eggs, two fresh and one 

 far advanced, June 18, 1902, Frank- 

 ford: Nest eight feet up in a poison- 

 ivy vine-covered spicewood bush, 

 placed on the vines and twigs, in a 

 woods. Composed of small sticks and 

 twigs, lined with oak catkins, loosely 

 put together and about half foot wide 

 across the top and depressed half an 

 inch. Eggs eliptical; light blue, one 

 a darker shade; size, 1.15 x .91, 1.14 

 X .88 inches. Female was flushed. 



4. Two eggs, one half incubated 

 and the other far advanced, June 27, 

 1902, Lanndale: Nest placed five feet 

 up in top of large, thick clump of 

 ])lackberry bushes in field beside 

 thicket at bottom of low railroad em- 

 bankment, well hidden from view by 

 the foliage. A shallow bottom of 

 leaves, weed stalks and grass stems, 

 lined with grass stems and two 

 leaves. Eggs light blue, eliptical; 

 size, 1.15 X .88, 1.12 x .84 inches. Fe- 

 male flushed off nest. 



5. One rotten egg. October 10, 

 1902, Frankford: Nest long deserted 

 was twelve feet up in a triple crotch 

 of a willow sprout along three-fringed 

 ( reek and was loosely put together 

 and made of small sticks and twigs, 

 and lined with fine weed and grass 

 stems, very slightly depressed. The 

 egg was dirty and disclosed a hole in 



the side; eliptical in shape and meas- 

 ured 1.12 X .87 inches. 



6. Two fresh eggs, June 12, 1903, 

 Frankford: Nest six feet up in an 

 alder bush along creek in alder thick- 

 et, containing many willow and White 

 Ash Trees, placed on a horizontal 

 branch near the top. A platform of 

 dry cucumber vine stems, lined with 

 several dry willow leaves and willow 

 catkins; fairly well constructed. It 

 measured about six inches across the 

 top and was half an inch deep, and 

 one and one-half inches thick. Eggs 

 light blue; eliptical; size, 1.11 x .79, 

 1.05 x .83 inches. Female reluctantly 

 flushed off the nest. 



7. Three eggs, one fresh and others 

 begun in incubation, June 12, 1903, 

 Frankford: Nest in same alder tract 

 as the preceeding, about one hundred 

 yards away, placed five feet up in a 

 double elder crotch amidst a thick 

 clump of these bushes in the creek 

 bank, within ten feet of the stream, 

 and well hidden like the other; made 

 of few twigs and dry herbaceous 

 (wild cucumber) vine stems, loosely 

 put together, and lined with dry wil- 

 low leaves and catkins. It measured: 

 Outside 6% inches; inside, 4 inches; 

 depth outside, 1% inches; inside, % 

 inch. Eggs light blue and eliptical; 

 size 1.04 X .79, 1.06 x .84, 1.04 x .80 

 inches. 



8. Two naked young and a half in- 

 cubated egg, June 14, 1905, Frankford; 

 Nest six feet up in a tangle of spice- 

 wood bushes and blackberry briers 

 in edge of woods, fairly well hidden, 

 and near a yellow-bellied Cuckoo's 

 nest containing three eggs. Losely 

 put together and made of small sticks 

 and twigs lined with hickory catkins. 

 Hardly depressed. Brooding female 

 almost touched, behaved very excited- 

 ly, cried and fluttered about. Nest 

 empty on 22d. 



9. Nest just started, June 6, 1905, 



