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 Hylocichla mustelina WOOD THRUSH. 



Common in the woods. Saw a completed nest 12 feet up on 



a horizontal branch of buckeye tree. In another woods I 



picked up an adult bird partly devoured. 

 IVierula migratoria ROBIN. 



Continuously seen throughout the day. 



The second trip to this section was made on the evening of 

 June 19, more to ascertain if the Parula Warbler (C. americana 

 usneae) bred in the region than to cover new territory. Ac- 

 cordingly my first place to visit the next morning, was 

 wooded hill-side opposite the village where I had seen the male 

 Parula on my previous visit. Approaching the clump of spruce 

 and buckeyes, I was greeted with the notes of the bird, and at 

 once began a search for its hidden nest, which I soon found 

 well concealed among the twigs at the end of a drooping spruce 

 branch, nine feet up and almost over the edge of the water in 

 the creek. The composition was chiefly of fine grasses, with a 

 slight mixture of usnea moss, vegetable fiber and small bits of 

 wool. It contained the fragments of one egg, but in general 

 appeared to have been used, as there was much excrement in 

 the bottom. 



About fifty yards from this site I came upon another pendant 

 spruce branch having a suspicious looking ball near the end, 

 which upon examination proved to be a newer nest of this 

 warbler, but was deserted, having two addled eggs of the 

 warbler and one of Moloihrus a/er. This nest was similar to 

 the first, but contained a goodly supply of hickory catkins and 

 hair, as well as some fine rootlets in the lining. 



Going over a part of the ground I had previously visited, 

 I found several nests of Acadian Flycatcher, which seems to 

 be a late breeder here for all the eggs were fresh. One nest 

 each of Yellow-billed Cuckoo and Field Sparrow, were found 

 containing two and four young respectively. A Red-winged 

 Blackbird's nest contained one egg, and an Ovebird was observ- 



