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tree, just 15 feet from the ground. 

 Composed of strips of bark and 

 grasses, held together with spiders 

 webs and lined with fine green 

 grasses. The exterior was ornament- 

 ■ed with birch bark, spiders eggs and 

 lichens. Four fresh eggs, white; spot- 

 ted at the largest end with deep cho- 

 colate and lavender. The birds were 

 very quiet while I was taking the nest. 

 The second nest is a larger and 

 more loosely constructed affair of bark 

 strips, lined with extremely fine grass. 

 The entire exterior of this nest is or- 

 namented with large strips of birch 

 bark, paper, spiders webs and eggs. 

 It is the most exquisite vireo's nest 

 that 1 have ever seen. It was situat- 

 ed in the fork of a small basswood 

 branch, close to the main trunk 25 

 feet from the ground. Unlike the 

 other pair, these birds were very noisy 

 while I was at the nest. 



May 31st. Found a nest of the Dow- 

 ney woodpecker, Dryobates pubescens, 

 which the birds had drilled on the un- 

 der side of a broken off maple 

 branch, 20 feet from the ground. The 

 •cavity in the limb, which is now be- 

 fore me, is gourd shaped, seven 

 inches in depth. It is three and one- 

 half inches wide in one way and two 

 and three-quarters inches the other 

 way, a cross section having more or 

 less the shape of a Lima bean. The 

 ■entrance faced directly towards the 

 ground and is only one inch in diame- 

 ter. The two fresh eggs were desert- 

 ■ed by the birds. They measure .71 x 

 .51 and .67 x .50. 



June 6th. Took a nest and three 

 ■eggs of the Red-eyed vireo, Vireosylvia 

 olivacea, placed in the fork of a maple 

 l3ranch ten feet above the edge of a 

 jnuch used roadway. The nest is firm- 

 ly built of moss-covered strips of Ar- 

 bor-vitae bark, lined with shreds of 

 bark and pine needles. A few pieces 

 £>i birch bark, paper and spiders web 



adorn the exterior. Measurements of 

 the nest are, inside diameter, 1% 

 inches. Outside diameter, 3 inches. 

 Inside depth, 1% inches. Outside 

 depth, 2^/4 inches. The eggs were 

 fresh and are white, lightly marked 

 with minute specks of brown and lav- 

 ender. All of the Vireo sets describ- 

 ed above possessed a wonderful pink- 

 ish hue when in the nest, but of course 

 all of this was lost upon blowing. 



Paul G. Hawes. 



The Red-eyed Vireo as a Mocker. 



On June 23, 1913 I was walking 

 along a small creek in Swarthmore, 

 Pa. Suddenly I was attracted by 

 notes similar to those of the Catbird, 

 only more rapid. I was interested so 

 1 made up my mind to investigate the 

 matter more closely, and the investi- 

 gation proved it to be a Rey-eyed 

 Vireo trying to mock a Catbird, and 

 indeed it was a good imitation. 



E. M. Kenworthy. 

 Wilmington, Delaware. 



A Sunday Morning Walk. 

 May 11, 1913. 



I was up at 7 o'clock and, after a 

 good breakfast I took my rifle and dog 

 "Sport" and started for a walk along 

 the river, and in the woods. 



I crossed to the south side of the 

 river (the Sangamon) and started into 

 the woods along its banks. 



As I went along I saw many birds. 

 Kingfishers were flying about, a large 

 flock of Crows were making the woods 

 noisy, and the Redheaded Woodpeck- 

 ers could be heard drumming away 

 on an old rotten limb. Crow-Black- 

 birds, Wrens, Redbirds, Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeaks, Bank Swallows, Sandpip- 

 ers and a good many other birds 

 seemed to be happy as they went dart- 

 ing back and forth in the woods and 

 along the river. 



I went on down the river to a place 



