BIRD NKSTS FOUND AT SPRING LODGE I77 



of the men who Hve after him. The mirage is only one thing which 

 entered into his life. He was intoxicated at times with the beauty 

 and stunned with the wonder of it. Let us too infuse into our 

 beings some of the wonder and beauty which maintained the 

 pioneer. 



Bird Nests Found at Spring Ledge in 1919. 



BY FRANK C. EVANS. 



I have just completed a record of the bird nests found at Spring 

 Ledge, near Crawfordsville, Indiana, during the past summer, and 

 I thought perhaps the readers of the American Midland Naturalist 

 might be interested in the result. I located 146 nests on the grounds, 

 and since the leaves have fallen, have found several others; but 

 these are not included in the record. There were twenty-six species 

 as follows: — 



' Green Heron i Flicker 4 



Robin 18 Sparrow Hawk. r 



Baltimore Oriole 3 Orchard Oriole... i • 



House Wren 14 Cuckoo, Yellow-billed 3 



Mourning Dove 14 Warbling Vireo 3 



Brown Thrasher 3 Catbird 3 



Bluebird 6 Chimney Swift 2 



Chipping Sparrow. 5 Hummingbird 2 



Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Meadowlark 6 



Purple Martin 38 Maryland Yellow-throat i 



Blue Jay ...i Red-winged Blackbird 3 



Kingbird i Cedarbird 2 



Phoebe 2 Crested Flycatcher i 



I put up sixty-six nesting boxes and shelves — fifty-five boxes and 

 eleven shelves. Twenty-eight boxes were used. Six of the boxes 

 were used twice, and three, three times. Twenty-seven boxes were 

 not used. Eight of these were in the immediate vicinity of a sparrow 

 hawk's nest, which I think account for their not being occupied. 

 Of the eleven shelter shelves, five were used, all by robins. 



Our Martin colony was considerably larger this year, and was a 

 source of continual delight throughout the summer. Among our 

 prized nests was a hummingbird's, situated on a limb about six 

 feet above a large spring. If I had been permitted to select the lo- 

 cation, I could not have picked a more picturesque spot. It was a 



