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Althouf^h in after years I have on several occasions seen 

 Golden-winged Warblers behaving in such a way that I was 

 confident that there was a nest near, I did not succeed in find- 

 ing another until June 7, 1899. On this date I was standing 

 with some pupils beside the triingular patch of low trees, of 

 which I have spoken, on Mill street, Newtonville, listening to' 

 the scng of a male Golden-wing, when I saw a female fly to 

 the ground in the midst of the patch. Going to the spot, I 

 found a partly completed nest on the ground among the fallen 

 leaves of the previous year; it was not concealed in anyway. 

 The land was high. I can say nothing more of this nest, as I 

 was unable to visit it again. 



On June 20, 1900, when with a class of pupils in Need- 

 ham we saw a male Golden-wing with a caterpillar in its bill. 

 After watching it a moment we concluded that it had young 

 in the vicinity. One of the ladies, after searching a moment, 

 saw the nest among the bushes. It was placed on high ground 

 and was surrounded with leaves, but without any attempt at 

 concealment. It contained three young Golden-wings and a 

 vouno- Cowbird. As I stooped over to look at the little birds 

 they all flew out of the nest, which we then saw contained an 

 unhatched egg. We very easily caught the young, and found 

 them all, including the Cowbird, quite tame. The little war- 

 blers sat contentedly on one of the ladies fingers while I wrote 

 a description of them. When the young birds flew, and they 

 were capable of flying about a yard, they uttered a chattering 

 cry ; the parents would then come within a few feet of us. It 

 was amusing to note that both male and female Golden-wing 

 were as anxious for the saftey the of little Cowbird as they were 

 for that of their own offspring. The young warblers perched 

 quite readily on bushes but the Cowbird seemed to prefer 

 keeping on the ground. 



T'he following year ( igoi ) when on Prospect Hill, Wal- 

 tham, with a class, our attention was attracted by hearing the 



