558 Hvrn.wv.vY. Notes Island Bir \o"l\ 



of the Water Thrush, Seitirus boracmsis. 1 Boon 



found one in the upturned roots of ft fallen tree with five eggs, and while 

 waiting for my oompanions who were some distance from me. to come and 

 see the nest. 1 inspected another upturned root a short distanee from the 

 first, and had the good luck to find a nest of the Louisiana Water-Thrush, 

 ttS ntOiaciUa. This nest was in the lower right hand edge of the root 

 about a foot above the water, and contained four eggs and two young just 

 out oi the shell. My companions having arrived at the spot, Mr. Flanagan 

 called our attention to a Winter Wren that alighted on the root. We 

 walked away a short distanee and in a few moments she came in sight 

 again with a caterpillar in her hill and disappeared among the roots. 

 Going to the tree we soon found the wren's nest in the same roots with 

 the nest of the Louisiana Water-Thrush, about four feet from it in the 

 upper left hand edge. It was built in a cavity of the roots with weed 

 stalks for a foundation, composed externally of green sphagnum moss, 

 lined with soft grasses and a few white hairs oi the Red Deer; globular in 

 shape, with a small hole in the side for an ent ranee, it contained six young 

 a week old. We heard the male singing its joyous, rippling song several 

 times while we were in the vicinity of the nest. This is the first and only 

 instance of its nesting in this state. 



Cistothorus stellaris. Short-bilijSd Marsh Wbjbn. — Recorded 

 in •' Birds oi Rhode Island " as a rare summer resident nesting at Newport. 

 I have searched in several favorable localities for it. but have never heard 

 or seen one. In the collection of the lateSnowden llowlandof Newport, 

 now deposited in the American Museum of Natural History in New York 

 City, is a set of five eggs taken in the " cattails " oi Kastons Pond. Newport, 

 on June 7. 1ST; 1 . 



Hylocichla guttata pallasi. Hf.umit Thrush. — Formerly known as 

 a common migrant the Hermit Thrush has in recent years become a regular 

 summer resident, locally dispersed, and breeding. The first nest was found 

 by Mr. Walter A. Angell in Kent County on June 1 I. 1905 and contained 

 live eggs incubated one week. Four more nests were found by him in the 

 same locality one of which he kindly gave me the location of, and which I 

 visited on July 10, 1907. 1 found the female on the nest and readily identi- 

 fied her. The nest was on the ground at the foot of a small laurel and con- 

 tained three fresh eggs. On June 8, 1907, 1 heard two males singing in 

 pitch pine woods in Coventry. Three males were Ringing on May 25, 1909, 

 in South Kingstown and I 'nave heard two or three every year in May and 

 June in the same locality, .bine L2, 1909, 1 found a nest in Coventry with 

 three nearly fresh eggs. It was on the ground between two small pine 

 saplings not over a foot high, composed of dead leaves, weed stems, shreds 

 of bark, and pine needles, and lined entirely with pine needles. A very 

 bulky nest with thick walls and well rounded edge. Ten individuals were 

 noted at various localities in 1909, their favorite haunts being the dry pitch 

 pine and scrub oak regions. 



