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Needham and Dedham, They are common on the east side 

 of Prospect Hill in Waltham, but are less often seen north 

 or east of this point. When they have once fixed upon a lo- 

 cation they are apt to return to it constantly year after year. 

 The first Golden-winged Warbler I ever saw was in West 

 Newton, thirty-five years ago. The bird was singing in a low 

 growth of mixed trees and shrubs near the road side. Two 

 years later I found a nest in this thicket, and have frequently 

 heard the birds singing there since ; in fact, the past summer 

 ( 1902 ) I saw a fine male within a few yards of where this nest 

 was placed. He was undoubtedly a direct descendant of the 

 very same birds that I found there so many years before. 

 On the west side of Mill street, about an eighth of a mile from 

 Walnut street Newtonville, two wood roads turn into a low 

 growth of trees. These roads begin some forty yards apart, 

 but after a course of fifty yards, come together and form one, 

 thus making a triangular patch of thicket, bounded by their 

 diverging forks and Mill street. As long as I have known 

 this place, now a number of years, I have known it as the sum- 

 mer home of a pair of Golden-wings. AVay back in the seven- 

 ties a nest was found in this immediate neighborhood, and two 

 years ago I saw another about in the middle of the patch. I 

 could cite other instances where these birds have remained con- 

 stant to particular locations since I have known them, and for 

 how long a time before will, of course, be a matter of mere 

 conjecture, but in all probability they occupied these thickets 

 as soon as the heavy growth of timber was removed, and it is 

 equally probable that they will continue to occupy them as 

 long as a sufiicient growth of shrubbery rem.ains to afford them 

 protection. Few, if any, among our warblers exhibit such a 

 strong love for a chosen spot. The Prairie W^arblers leave a 

 location in which they have become established with great re- 

 luctance ; but too many changes in the immediate vicinity of 

 their breeding grounds, even if they do not involve the nesting 



