48 Gbe Marbler 



an enthusiastic student of Natural History, took us for a long walk throuo-h 

 his woods and fields. He was particularly anxious that we should see and 

 hear the Black-throated Green Warbler which was breeding in his woods 

 for the first time. He had no difficulty in showing us two or three siuo-mo- 

 males that were evidently breeding, as the President said that they were 

 always to be found in their respective localities, and generally singing from 

 one particular tree. 



At luncheon the President entertained us by telling about the birds he 

 had observed at the White House grounds at Washington, remarking that 

 people used to stare at him as lie stood gazing up into the trees, like one 

 demented. "No doubt they thought me insane," he remarked. "Yes," 

 said Mrs. Roosevelt, "and as I was always with him no doubt they thought 

 I was the nurse who had him in charge." 

 v«n„™ «,«»«>+«* wo^i t T , , President Roosevelt was so fortunate as t 



Yellow-tnroated Warbler on I,ong Island u 



find the Yellow-throated -Warbler {Den- 

 droica dominicia) near his house at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, about July 

 i8th. This is probably the first Long Island record for this bird, and. one 

 of the very few records of its appearance so far north as New York. The 

 President wrote me very enthusiastically about this discovery, showing his 

 keen appreciation of so rare a find and his great knowledge of the habits 

 and habitat of North American birds. 



