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being suspicious evidently on account of my presence near the nest. 

 At [.24 the female, presumably, returned into the hole. On the 

 third occasion I was in position at 2.30. At 4.1(i the first rattle 

 was heard of one of the birds approaching, and a minute later perch 

 Was taken on the fence post above the nest. These records, while 

 not wholly conclusive, indicate that the Kingfisher is a late riser 

 like other hole-nesting birds. 



The record of Chimney Swift has been transferred from the 

 first paper, no birds having occupied near chimneys in the season of 

 L9 1 '-. And in this season so few records of ( 'hickadee and Bobolink 

 were obtained, I have combined with these, supplemented by re- 

 cords of 1013, the records of the several previous seasons in draw- 

 ing the averages of these species. 



Voicings of the nuthatches have not been heard on any occasion 

 until well toward the close of the record or until after the songs 

 of the flycatchers, the warblers, and the thrushes had all been 

 heard, although I have often been within range of their voices. 

 A pair of White-breasted and two pairs of Red-breasted have been 

 resident within the wood. The voices of the latter have followed 

 closely after the song of the latest awakening warbler, the Bay- 

 breast. The voice of the former has been many times heard when 

 later rambles through the woodland have been taken, but has been 

 recorded but once during morning awakening. The nuthatches, 

 therefore, like the woodpeckers, appear to first voice themselves 

 among the latest awakening species, when they are not the last 

 Of all. 



The voice of the Pileated Woodpecker has been frequently 

 heard when I have taken my customary walks in the wood in the 

 early morning. That it has reached me but once while recording 

 morning awakening is accepted as evidence that the species seldom 

 voices itself until after sunrise. The time given in the first paper 

 based on eight records, mostly obtained in June, was 11 minutes 

 after sunrise. There are two before sunrise records of 16 and 9 

 minute-, in 1 905 ami 1902. I cannot say that the Downy Wood- 

 pecker does not sometimes voice itself before sunrise in call, or song, 

 or rappings, but the experience of many morning awakenings is 

 that it does not. 



Other species which entered into the records of 11)12 and L913, 



