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three eggs in the nest. The mother bu-d was quite nervous when I 

 was near the nest. No further observations were made on this nest. 



CATBIRD. 



On May 2d I saw two Catbirds weaving straws into a nest. May 

 5th, the nest was gone. Catbirds not near. I believe they are hard 

 to please, for they begin a nest and then desert it, sometimes leaving the 

 foundation and other times entirely destroying every trace of it. 



On May Tth I found a nest made of twigs and dry grass with 

 Catbirds near it. On May 9th this nest was partially destroyed. The- 

 birds were gone. 



On May Tth I found a nest in a tree. I chased the birds off from 

 the nest to find two greenish eggs in it. The eggs were smaller than 

 the Robin's eggs. The old birds fought me. May 9th, no change in 

 the nest. Birds fought even harder than the last time. May 14th,. 

 one egg was pipped. Maj- 16th, I climbed the ti-ee. No birds flew 

 at me, and I soon found that, like so many other nests, this one had 

 been robbed. The eggs were gone. No shells nor birds were near. 



On May Tth I found an unfinished nest. It was nicely hidden by 

 leaves. It was built of twigs and a few dry grasses; no birds were- 

 near. This nest was deserted, as no more work had been done and 

 no eggs were found in it on later visits. 



On May 9th I found the fifth Catbird's nest. It contained one egg. 

 No bird was near to fight. On May 14th two eggs were in the nest,. 

 and on May 16th the eggs had been broken and the nest torn up. No' 

 birds were near. 



The sixth nest was found on May 9th. It contained one egg, but 

 no bird Avas near to fight. On the 14th the nest had two eggs in it^ 

 but they were broken and the nest was destroyed. 



On May 14th I found a nest quite high in the tree. There was- 

 one egg in it. May 21st, the egg was gone; it looked as though 

 it had been broken. The inside of the nest was torn out. 



On May 21st I found a newly built nest. The Catbirds were in 

 the tree and seemed very interested in the nest. On May 23d the nest 

 was destroyed and no birds were near. 



