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for caring for themselves ; they are little fool birds. How- 

 ever, Thrush character varies ; it is as beautiful and flexible 

 as the bird's wonderful voice. While nearly all Thrushes 

 are extremely gentle and affectionate, I must confess that the 

 only bird that ever dealt me a blinding blow in the eyes with 

 his wings, when I accidentally startled the young from the 

 nest was an 'extremely beautiful specimen of the Hermit 

 Thrush. In one family I have found one helpless little bird 

 that insisted on sitting in my note book all the time, with two 

 that resented too much attention. 



June 15, 1912, I found a Hermit Thrush incubating three 

 egg-s. 



June 26, the young Hermit Thrushes were seven days old ; 

 it was the end of the quill stage ; I took the young Thrushes 

 to study. 



June 29, the young Hermits left the nest. 



June 30-July 10, the young Thrushes spent part or all of 

 each day in the woods learning to feed. They perched in 

 fir boughs in the house at night. 



July 10-July 15, I freed the Thrushes entirely and fed 

 them what was necessary. 



July 15. the Thrushes appeared to be in an almost natural 

 state. They were entirely competent to care for themselves. 



A BRIEF STUDY OF THE NEST LIFE OF THE 

 • BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER. 



BY CORDELIA J. STAN WOOD. 



Beside a shady path that marked the course of a neglected 

 woodroad, a pair of Black-throated Green Warblers con- 

 structed a nest, near the tip of a branch of a large spruce 

 tree, but three and one-half feet above the ground. It is 

 not very often that the Black-throated Green Warbler pro- 

 vides the student with such an excellent opportunity for study- 

 ing her nest. Usually these birds build at a greater elevation. 



