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entering the swamp we could hear five or six rivalling with each other in 

 pouring forth their sweet lays. 



Our main object was to search for Warblers' nests and we succeeded in 

 nndino- a few partly completed structures of the Black-throated Green and 

 the Blackburuian Warblers in the center of small black spruces. Both birds 

 were observed while carrying nesting material to their half finished domiciles. 

 Near a small alder bush {Almts serrulata) embedded in sphagnum moss, 

 and protected on one side by a rotten log covered with ferns, I found the 

 nest of the Veery, containing four eggs of a pale greenish blue color. It 

 was built of barkstrips mainly of the white cedar, and of grasses and was 

 lined with finer material of the same nature. Being surrounded by a dense 

 o-rowth of cranberry and huckleberrv bushes, wintergreeu, clintonias and 

 cypripediums, among which the nest was snugly hidden, it was only by 

 accident that I discovered it. I flushed the bird from it while walking to- 

 ward an old stump, which contained a nest of the Chickadee — a very com- 

 mon bird in the swamp. 



In the immediate neighborhood of this nest, but on the other side of 

 the road, I noticed a White-crowned Sparrow suddenly disappear in the 

 center of a dense clump of ferns and cypripediums. I presently approached 

 the spot in order to search' closely, when the old male appeared, showing 

 much distress and uttering constantly its very plaintive notes. This gave 

 me the assurance that I was in close proximity of the nest. I carefully 

 parted the ferns and the other plants with my hands and I soon was reward- 

 ed with a very beautiful spectacle. There sat, underneath a most charming 

 vegetation, on a soft bed of sphagnum moss, wintergreeu and twin-flowers 

 snugly on her nest the female. Quietly and without a motion her beautiful eyes 

 glanced at me. When approaching too near with my hand she flew off, 

 feigning lameness and joining the male near by. Both displayed much 

 uneasiness and constantly uttered their notes of embarrassment. 



The nest was a rather bulky structure composed of grasses and leaves 

 and barkstrips and was lined with finer barkstrips. On one side stood a 

 small spruce and near by a thicket of white cedars and deciduous shrubs. 

 It contained four eggs of a pale greenish white ground color washed all over 

 with rusty brown and chocolate brown spots. Mr. Brandon photographed 

 the nest after some of the bushes and plants screening it from view had been 

 removed. 



