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busy collecting nesting-material. I watched her for perhaps three- 

 quarters of an hour. Three different times she disappeared in the 

 underbrush and returned to the roadside for more material. I was 

 not able to locate the nest, however. During all this time the male 

 bird perched on a nearby tree singing, but took no part in the build- 

 ing of the nest. A dog in chase of a chipmunk frightened them, 

 and I saw them no more." Mr. Caduc describes the female bird as 

 similar in coloration to the male bird, only slightly duller. 



On May 26, about 10 a. m., I again visited the spot and after 

 waiting a half-hour heard the Bluewing's song. The singing was 

 maintained for about a half-hour, and then there was another 

 equal period when I could not hear the song or get evidence of the 

 bird. The female bird was neither seen nor heard. The male 

 moved about through the same trees as before, but took a somewhat 

 wider range. The singing haunt of the male consisted of a small 

 mowing-plot cornering at the roadside and backed by a pasture of 

 considerable extent containing an orchard of old apple trees which 

 reached back in succession for nearly a quarter of a mile. The 

 pasture was dotted also with chestnut trees. Beside the mowing 

 was a swampy hollow through which flowed a brook coming down 

 through the pasture from a wooded hillside in the rear. On the 

 other side of the mowing-plot the land rose also to pasture and to 

 second-growth woodland composed of white and pitch pines, 

 birches, oaks, and cedars, with berry bushes as undergrowth and 

 the surface where exposed covered with dry moss. The elms, 

 which proved a favorite feeding and singing place of the male bird, 

 stood beside the highway in front of this woodland. Thus at the 

 spot chosen by this pair of warblers there is much diversity of 

 natural feature. The location is also within a mile and in sight 

 of the old Wayside Inn made famous by Longfellow in his poem 

 entitled 'Tales of a Wayside Inn.' On this second occasion in the 

 forenoon I found these other warbler voices united with the Blue- 

 wing's, the Goldenwing's, the Nashville's, the Yellow's, the Chest- 

 nut-side's, the Black-throated Green's, the Oven-bird's, the Yellow- 

 throat's, and the Redstart's. 



On May 29, upon further expressions of urgent desire on my part 

 for more knowledge as to the nesting of these Bluewings, Mr. 

 Caduc made a second visit to the locality, arriving about 9.30 in 



