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year at Smithtown I found a pair and their nest on May 24th and five days 

 later took the stub which contained three fresh eggs. I also took the pair of 

 birds. The nest was in the stub of an oak tree the top of which had been 

 broken off by the wind, and was about seven feet from the ground. 



Black and white warbler Nesting While the Black and White Warbler is 



seen on Long Island everv year durino- 

 the summer season, I found my first nest of this species on May 29th. The 

 nest contained four slightly incubated eggs and one Cowbird eo-cr it was 

 situated in a little bank by the side of a roadway leading through a piece 

 of woods. 



Biue-winged warbler A sin g ] e male Blue-winged Warbler in 



fine plumage was observed by me the end 

 of May 111 a small piece of scrub-oak and chestnut near Floral Park just out- 

 side the limits of Greater New York. This bird was undoubted] v 'breeding 

 and it is the first one I have ever seen or heard singing on Long Island dur- 

 ing the breeding season. 



whip-poor-wiiis Abundant Whip-poor-wills were more abundant on 



the North Shore of Long Island this sea- 

 son than for several years past. 



English sparrows Breeding in Tree Every year I notice more and more En°-- 



lish Sparrows nesting in tree cavities not 

 only in old orchards adjacent to buildings but in many out of the way places 

 though not in dense forest. Evidently this obnoxious bird is adapting it- 

 self to natural conditions, and will not long depend upon the barnyard* for 

 subsistence, or upon buildings for nesting places. 



Mourning Dove J llaVe seen more Moiirilillg Doves Oil 



Long Island this season than ever before 

 At Smithtown three nests were observed, all within a stone's throw of each 

 other, and in a locality where I have never before found but one nest of this 

 bird, and that was several years ao-o 



i,ate Breeding of song sparrows ^ n August 18th I found a nest with three 



eggs of the Song Sparrow in the shrub- 

 bery near my home at Floral Park. The brood hatched out some time be- 

 tween the 23rd and 25th. 



American Redstart Common ^ Alllerican Redstart has been a COIU- 



• mon bird in Long Island woods this sum- 

 mer. Two nests were found in a small piece of voung timber at Floral Park 

 near the New York City line. None were ever known to breed in this lo- 

 cality before. 



Black-throated Green Warbler ^ !1 J lme I 9 tn > i 11 Company with Mr. John 



Burroughs, I visited President Roosevelt 

 at his country place, Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay. The President, who is 



