112 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 88 



While we were watching the birds, the owners of the cottage 

 arrived for their summer sojourn. We explained to them that 

 the grounds were already tenanted, and found them to be 

 very much interested in the welfare of their distinguished 

 bird guests. 



The next day ]\Ir. Goodell walked a good mile around the 

 lake shore, about noon, to tell me that the young warbler had 

 left the nest that morning about nine o'clock, and that the,y 

 Mere keeping track of its whereabouts until I could arrive. 

 About two o'clock the young bird was banded with the num- 

 ber 16291. and returned to its home — the tin can — where it 

 seemed perfectly contented to remain. By this procedure we 

 hoped to entice the parents to visit the nest and feed, in order 

 that we might make photographs. In this we were entirely 

 successful, for within five minutes one of the parents had 

 discovered the young and visited it with food. 



The feeding visits were then continued with frequency 

 during the remainder of the afternoon, and we made over a 

 dozen exposures of the old bird in the process of feeding. 

 Unfortunately, all but two of the plates were underexposed. 

 The photograph here reproduced shows this bird in a some- 

 what ditferent attitude from that usually depicted in the 

 illustrated accounts of the species. 



Usually, if undisturbed, the parent flew directly' to the 

 nest, alighting on the disc of tin cut out for an entrance and 

 bent into a horizontal position. However, if at all alarmed 

 the approach was made more cautiously. It would, under 

 such circumstances, alight on the tree trunk or small twigs 

 ten or fifteen feet above the nest, and descend by hopping 

 from twig to twig; or, hy simply clinging to the bark of the 

 tree, and hopping, neither backward nor head-first, but side- 

 wdse. Of course it is quite possible that the two methods of 

 approaching the nest here mentioned may have belonged to 

 the male and female birds respectively, but in the short time 

 the sexes were not distinguished. 



No effort Avas made to recognize the food brought, Init in 

 one instance a green larva was noticed. The photograph also 

 shows some insect in the bird's bill. 



