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trees, now leafless but laden with little golden spheren — "plucns 

 of the gods" — then with the frosts and the high autnmn tides 

 the marshes are once more the abode of desolation. 



From my year's journal I quote some of the more interesting 

 bird notes: 



April 15, 1907. — Found a Cardinal's nest, containing three 

 eggs, in a small laurel. On April 29 there was only one young 

 bird in the nest. Another Cardinal's nest in greenbrier tangle 

 containing three eggs, and by April 22d three young birds. 

 Also a Mourning Dove's nest and two eggs, one of which 

 hatched by April 22d, and on April 29th the two young birds 

 were about half grown. 



April 21st. — Saw a good many large flocks of Goldfinches. 

 They are beginning to show a few j'ellow feathers interspersed 

 among the olive of their backs. They seemed rather noisy, 

 and a few were singing this morning. An Osprey put in an ap- 

 pearance to-day. A pair of these birds spent the summer of 

 1905 about here. Where did they nest? 



April 22d. — Cardinal's nest in greenbrier with three eggs, 

 which had hatched by April 29th. 



April 27th.— A pair of Carolina Chickadees were carrying 

 feathers into a hole in a button-bush stub. Found a Bluebird's 

 nest and four eggs in a small cherry tree in the orchard. 



April 29th. — Found a Vesper Sparrow's nest on the ground 

 in a pear orchard containing four eggs. 



April SOlh. — A considerable number of Bank Swallows were 

 going in and out of their nesting holes in the sand tiank. 



May Uh- — Heard a Robin utter a shrill note at 9:30 p. m. 



May 6lh. Foundations for a Yellow Warbler's nest just 

 started. Also found a Song Sparrow's nest with five eggs. A 

 White-eyed Vireo was seen carrying nesting material. Foun- 

 dations for nest started in viburnum bu.sh some four feet from 

 the ground. 



May 7th. — Another Yellow Warbler's nest started and a com- 

 pleted nest found. 



May 11th. — Late this afternoon I saw a Maryland Yellow- 

 throat mount into the air, from the top of an alder, with a burst 

 of song. He flew to quite a height and poured forth his melody 



