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NATURE STUDY REVIEW 



[8 :6— Sept., 1912 



Two OF THE Nestlings Almost Ready to Leave Nest. 



Time of Parent 

 feeding feeding 



10:25i ? 



10:27i 



10:28 



10:29 

 10:38 

 10:40 

 10:43 



10:46 

 10:52 

 10:53 

 10:55 



10:56 

 10:57 

 11:02 

 11:04 



Interrupted by 

 dently pnnoyed. 



Food 

 brought 

 green canker worm 

 brown canker worm 

 small insect 

 brown canker worm 

 brown canker worm 

 green canker worm 

 yellowish canker 



worm 

 green canker worm 

 green canker worm 

 small insect 

 greenish yellow 



worm 

 green canker worm 

 small insect 

 green canker worm 

 grey moth 



visitors. Birds 



Excreta 

 removed 



11:12 



ll:15i 



11:16 



11:21 



ll:21i 



11:25 



11:27 



11:30 

 11:31 

 11:35 

 11:37 

 11:43 



11:47 

 11:49 



green canker worm 

 green canker worm 



green canker worm 

 small insect 



greenish 

 worm 



canker 



small insect 

 green canker worm 

 green canker worm 

 green canker worm 

 green canker worm 

 greenish yellow worm 

 large caterpillar. 



probably cutworm. Fed 



part and carried part 



away. 



rf 2 green canker worms 



? small insect 



11:52 c? & ? ? 



11:57 small insect 



One of the young birds left 



Time of Parent Food Excreta 



feeding feeding brought removed 



the nest and climbed up the 

 bank and into the grass. 



:00M. ? 

 :04 ? 



white moth 



? ; 



green canker worm 

 yellowish moth 



? 



? 



cf green canker worm 



Another nestling climbed out 

 over the edge of the nest. 



9 . ?■ 



white moth 

 white moth 

 canker worm 

 yellowish moth 

 green canker worm 

 green canker worm 

 moth 

 white moth 



white moth 

 white moth 

 green canker worm 

 green canker worm 

 The two nestlings that had 

 left the nest were captured 

 and placed in a box. By 

 their cries they were attract- 

 ing the parent birds to the 

 neglect of those remaining 

 in the nest. They were 

 placed back in the nest at 

 3:20. It is likely that they 

 left on account of the ex- 

 posure to the s\ni's rays. 

 The grass had to be laid back 

 for observation. 



9 green canker worm 



cf moth 



? moth 



d" green canker worm 



(S moth 



cf moth 



