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ently thorough search of strips of woods near home failed to 

 reveal Worm-earter's nest, although the male was singing close 

 to hand. Another fruitless search on the stetp hillside opposite 

 Laurel Lodge where male was heard singing, took u.p much of 

 mv time. In this overgrown pasture hillside of Beaumont 

 Farm I heard three male Blue-wings singing. While 1 was 

 ascending path a male hovered over some saplings, some twenty 

 feet below nest as afterwards learned, but flew away on seeing 

 me. Feniale chipped in a desultary fashion from low bushe'S 

 immediately surrounding nest which was but ten feet above 

 path. The male pursued another male, and after all was quiet, 

 I flushed the female from her nest and five eggs at the foot of 

 some cherry sprouts and surrounded by blackberry sprouts and 

 grass. The entrance was up hill and away from the path. The 

 female kept within three or four feet of me, and with elevated 

 head feathers, spread tail and drooped wings, chipped loudly. 

 The male kept six or eight feet away. After 1 had retired a 

 quick chattering series of chips followed. 1 failed to locate any 

 more here, likewise Kentucky at i:;L\^i,e of woods and Worm-eat- 

 ing on hillside opposite, where 1 had hoped to find the Black and 

 White Warbler nesting. 



On down the new road to the Higg's Hollow where 1 heard 

 another Blue-wing singing away back beyond a field. The road- 

 side looked so near the ideal resting site that 1 was tempted to 

 investigate. The male came over and sang from a treetop 

 above my head. 1 soon flushed the plump little female from 

 her four eggs in clump of wild astors, within a foot of the 

 wheel tiack of the much frequented public thoroughfare. A 

 very close approach on the roadside did not disturb her as she 

 had nxobably scho(^led herself to put up with some annoyance 

 on tnat side. However when startled she proved wild and the 

 mate at once retired to first position. This nest as the first, 

 was made outwardly, of sedgegrass. My movements evidently 

 excited the suspicions of a colored woman residing in a tumbled 

 down log house across the creek, for after a series of halloos 

 which only a full-bk)oded negro can utter to perfection, and an 

 answering halloo from unseen female drifted down from some 

 little stump lot in the chestnut timber; she whooped " Come 



