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feet from the ground, made of jessa- 

 mine vines, strips of bark and leaves, 

 lined with fine grasses. Eggs fresh. 



April 22, 1896.— Cardinal, 5-3. Nest 

 of fine weed-stalks and reed-leaves, 

 placed in a small maple, about 7 feet 

 from the ground. Eggs fresh. 



April 22, 1896.— Chipping Sparrow, 

 7-4. Fresh eggs taken from a nest of 

 weed-stalks and grasses, lined with 

 hair, placed in a small cedar about 

 fifteen feet from the ground. Eggs 

 fresh. 



May 1, 1896.— Purple Martin, 3-5. 

 Nest of sticks, rootlets and grasses, 

 placed in a box 18 feet from the 

 ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 1, 1896.— Purple Martin, 3-5. 

 Nest of sticks, rootlets and grasses, 

 placed in a box 18 feet from the 

 ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 16, 1896.— Purple Martin, 2-6. 

 Nest placed in a box 14 feet from the 

 ground, made of small sticks, grasses 

 and fine roots. Eggs fresh. 



May 16, 1896.— Purple Martin, 4-5. 

 Nest of small sticks and fine roots, 

 placed in a box 16 feet from the 

 ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 16, 1896.— Purple Martin, 5-5. 

 Nest of leaves, grasses and rootlets, 

 placed in a box 20 feet from the 

 ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 16, 1896. — Purple Martin, 6-5. 

 Nest of small sticks, fine roots and 

 leaves, placed in a box 16 feet from 

 the ground. Incubation begun. 



May 16, 1896.— Purple Martin, 7-5. 

 Nest of rootlets, placed in a box 16 

 feet from the ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 16, 1896.— Cardinal, 6-3. Nest 

 of jessamine vines and leaves, lined 

 with fine grasses, placed in a small 

 maple about 8 feet from the ground. 

 Eggs fresh. 



June 13, 1896.— Indigo Bunting, 1-4. 

 Nest made entirely of reed-leaves and 

 grasses, placed in a reed, ab)out 3 feet 



from the ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 4, 1897.— Purple Martin, 1-4. 

 Nest of small sticks and grasses, plac- 

 ed in a box 16 feet from the ground. 

 Eggs fresh. 



May 5, 1897.— Red-eyed Vireo, 3-4, 

 Nest of chips of rotten-wood, fine 

 strips of bark, leaves, weed-stalks and 

 spider-webs, placed in the fork of a 

 beech limb, about 15 feet from the 

 ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 7, 1897.— Rough-winged Swal- 

 low, 1-7. Nest placed in a borough 

 overhanging Albemarle Sound, made 

 of "pine seed leaves" and small bits 

 of fodder. Eggs fresh. 



May 8, 1897.— Cardinal, 7-3. Nest 

 of jessamine vines, strips of bark and 

 leaves, lined with fine grasses; placed 

 in a small bush, about 10 feet from the 

 ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 15, 1897.— Purple Martin, 915. 

 Nest of grasses, fine roots and leaves, 

 placed in a box 15 feet from the 

 ground. Incubation begun. 



May 15, 1897.— Purple Martin, 10-5. 

 Nest of grasses and fine roots, plac- 

 ed in a box 15 feet from the ground. 

 Medium embryos. 



May 15, 1897.— Purple Martin, 11-5. 

 Nest of grasses and small sticks, 

 placed in a box 16 feet from the 

 ground. Medium embryos. 



May 18, 1907.— Purple Martin, 3-6. 

 Nest of grasses, fine roots and leaves, 

 placed in a box 14 feet from the 

 ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 22, 1897.— Field Sparrow, 1-3. 

 Nest placed in a small gun bush about 

 24 inches from the ground, made of 

 fine week-stalks and grasses, lined 

 with fine grass. Incubation begun. 



May 22, 1897. — Summer Tanager, 

 2-3. Nest of weed-stalks, lined with 

 long stalks of grass, placed in a gum, 

 about 10 feet from the ground. Eggs 

 fresh. 



May 22, 1897. — Summer Tanager, 



