fiO Till-. Wilson lUi.i i-:iix — Xo. r)!). 



in a crotch of it near the top. sonic fifty fict from the i^rtamd. 

 This tree stood in a rather open pieci? of woods of some ex- 

 tent, and g^rew near the hilly bank of a small sti-eam. Durintj 

 the latter ])art of Jun?, l.SDT, my s-jn had climbed to the nest 

 and inspected the eggs, of which there were four, with 

 nothing peculiar about them, except that he reported that the 

 dark markings on th'jm were rather strong and pronounced. 



I''or some reastjn cm" other this ni^st was not visited again l)y 

 us. and it a])i)ears that the clutch was duly hatched out. One 

 morning toward the middle of the following nionth a negro 

 brought to my house three young Broad-wings, which he said 

 he had taken from a tall oak tree about a mik' away, and that 

 there were in it four of them, but one had escaped him and 

 flown ofif. Upon (|uestioning him there w-as no doubt but 

 that the specimens had come from the nest we had discov- 

 ered, as he knew the locality well. One of these birds w'as 

 considerabl}' larger than the other two. and all were able to 

 flv a short distance at a time, but their recapture was not a 

 matter of much difhculty. All of them, when received, were 

 ravenously hungry, but this was soon appeased by feeding 

 them with a generous sup])lv <of raw beef cut into small bits. 

 They were ver}- noisy, and resented being handled very much, 

 though among themselves good nature prevailed. 



( )n the Ifith of July (ISitT) T made, late one evening, a 

 photograph of the largest individual of the three, but the re- 

 sulting negative was not quite as good as I should have liked, 

 owing to the insufficiency of light (see figure). However, 

 the print from it proved to be an interesting picture of the 

 species, taken at an age not usually seen in illustrations, and 

 for this fact I hope it may prove more or less instructive. 



In a few days after the above date these birds all escaped, 

 and I was not altogether sorry to part with them, as at that 

 time 1 had a good mjany different kinds of living animals 

 about my premises, with my hands correspondingly full in 

 making photographs of them all, — everything from a tree- 

 toad to a Turkey \Tilture. 



As to the nest that these birds constructed, provided it was 



