her side and together they flitted to and fro among the lower 

 willow branches and through the brier clumps near at hand. 

 The nest contained one little egg of her own and one of the 

 Cowbird (Alolothrus aterj. The latter I removed to induce 

 the mother warbler to lay a full complement, if possible, for, 

 without the "ifs" and "ands" of a lengthy explanation here, 

 this nest and eggs were to go into my cabinet and to form a 

 part of this study, and to be, as far as possible, beneficial to 

 science. Going back the next day 1 was glad to find the re- 

 moval of the parasitic egg was a matter of little concern to the 

 mother bird, who slipped away from the nest, revealing two 

 beauties of her own. On the 20th. when 1 went to take the 

 nest 1 was disappointed to find that no more eggs had been 

 deposited; but in lifting the nest 1 found the third egg resting 

 between two blades of grass and uninjured, save for two soft 

 spots in the shell where it came in contact wilh wet grass. 

 This egg may have been displaced by the Cowbid when she 

 deposited her's as it was fresh, while the two in the nest were 

 slightly incubated. 



The location of this nest was the nearest to the creek bot- 

 tom lands of all the forty odd nests which have come under my 

 observation during my experience with this species. 



Returning to the description of this hollow, we find the 

 contour changing as we follow up the course of the brooklet, 

 — the high hills becoming less steep. The woods starting one 

 hundred feet above the nest, begins with numerous sugar 

 maples, the trunks of which bear scars of an old time sugar 

 camp. For quite a distance up the hollow most of the large 

 trees are of this species; but gradually oak, beech, elm and 

 hickory trees replace it ; here and there gum, wild cherry and 

 chestnut trees are seen, and around the head of the hollow 

 numerous locusts and a few walnuts grow. The elms are 

 not numerous, and the beeches grow chiefly on the steep sides 

 of the four short ravines which reach out from the main hol- 

 low into different directions forming its head. Across tKis ex- 

 panse great oaks tower above all other trees. The woods it- 



