lO Bl'LLIiTIN No. 34. 



which we crosst'J a sliallow brook. One side of the stream 

 was the dense wocds, tile other a tans^le of bushes about ten 

 feet hi,^ll and the ,urou,id rather swampy. Sitting down on an 

 old log m\' friend and myself held our field o;lasses in readiness 

 for anything. We could hear the Grosbeak' still singing, and 

 the bushes seemed alive with Warbler songs. 



Soon a loud splash, and a Rose-breasted Grosbeak was 

 bathing not ten feet from us. He splashed around well then 

 flew up in a low tree and went to pruning his feathers, in a 

 moment a Chickadee went through the same performance, 

 then two Blackburnian Warblers made their appearance a little 

 further on, and they bath.ed repeatedly and then sat on a tree in 

 plain sight and made their toilet. 



Then came a pair of Chestnut-si led War^-lers followed by 

 two Black-throated Green Warblers and all the time the cor.cert 

 was going on. Finally v.e had to leave and the birds were still 

 bathing. The next week, 1 went alone, to tlie same spot, and 

 sat down, in a second a Cliipping Sparrow come t ) th.e bathing 

 place, then a Chickadee, tiien several Chestnut-sided Warblers, 

 then followed a Parula Warbler, the first one 1 had ever seen, 

 then a Black and White Creeper and several Red-eyed Vireos. 

 The concert was something bewildering. A Catbird sang just 

 back of me, and the Grosbeaks and Red-eyed Vireos kept up 

 a perpetual singing, in a distance the flute-like song of a 

 Thrush reached me and over all was the call of Teacher Teaclier 

 Teacher. 



1 did wish every bird lover could see this beautiful spot. 

 Our Nortbiern \\-oods seem very rich in birds. So many species 

 that the bird books pronoun.ce rare we see very often. 



E. S, G., AntiiTQ^ [Vis. 



NOTES ON THE MERGANSER SUB-FAMILY, 



hi the latter part of February the ice in Cuyahoga river 

 breaks up and the first northbound migrants are American 

 Mergansers. First comes the drakes in gaudy white and black 

 dress, and by the first week in March they are gone and the 

 dun-colored females aud immature males come in with the Mai- 



