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We raised two broods of chickadees in the same box; I think the same 

 parents; the first brood, four young ones, the second brood, four. We 

 combed the hair out of our brown poodle. The nest both times was made 

 of cedar bark for foundation and the rest of poodle hair. I cleaned the 

 box out after the first brood left. We raised four young house wrens in 

 a box on the garage; nest made of sticks, pine needles, lined with small 

 white pigeon feathers. 



We raised five broods of tree swallows, six broods of catbirds, eight 

 families of robins that I knew about, and at least fifteen families of song 

 sparrows, one covy of eleven quail, fourteen eggs; one brown thrasher; one 

 chewink; and one purple finch. 



November 1st, 1914. 



Over one hundred robins in the pine grove, half a dozen at a time bath- 

 ing in the bird-baths. There is a line of savins that runs along the shore 

 for several miles. There are at least three hundred robins that stay through 

 the winter traveling up and down that line. 



November 14th, this year, saw on my beach thirty-one snow buntings. 

 They were there off and on all last winter. 



In front of my house on White Head Island, ten feet from my piazza, I 

 have two shallow bird-baths. 



August 4th, 1913, between 6:30 and 7:30 in the morning most of the 

 birds in the neighborhood seemed to gather about those baths planning to 

 migrate. They were feeding on hollyhock, asters, goldenrod, etc., and bath- 

 ing in bunches in the baths. The robins, sparrows, blackbirds, flycatchers, 

 etc., were taking turns. Every time one of them would take a dip, one of our 

 pet catbirds would follow suit and splash around. 



I counted: 



5 Cedar-birds, 



3 Pigeon woodpeckers, 



3 Great crested flycatchers, 



1 Cuckoo, 



2 Orioles, 



11 Yellow warblers, 



9 Robins, 



1 Hummingbird, 



3 Catbirds, 



1 Red-winged blackbird and his yoimg ones in the pine grove, 



2 Purple finches, 



2 Chipping sparrows, 



17 Song sparrows, 



6 Kingbirds, old and young, 

 2 Downy woodpeckers, 



10 Goldfinches, 

 1 Phoebe flycatcher. 



Innumerable tree swallows circling about within a few yards 

 of the hou?e, also one beetle-head and one summer yellow-legs 

 on the beach, 



4 Kingfishers, young and old, on the rocks, later in the day, 

 quite a flock of shore-birds. 



