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rapidly under the efficient care of the 

 adults, and on June 20th were seen in 

 the vicinity still in the care of the 

 adults, who were still providing as- 

 siduously for them as during the early 

 stages of their homelife. On this 

 latter date another brood of three 

 with parents were located at New 

 foundland in a copse of white birches 

 about three weeks old. 



Louis S. Kohler. 



Nesting of the Black and White 

 Warbler. 



Throughout a large section of Pen- 

 nsylvania lying within the Alleghani- 

 an and Canadian life zones the Black 

 and White Warbler is a common nest- 

 ing bird. A few nests have been 

 found in the southern counties but 

 the birds are far more common in the 

 central and northern counties of the 

 state, though in the true primeval 

 northern forests they are very scarce. 



A number of times I have found 

 nests of this strikingly marked little 

 bird but invariably they were found to 

 contain young. At that time the par- 

 ents obvious anxiety readily points 

 out the locality of the nest and a care- 

 ful search usually discloses it at the 

 base of a stump or under a fallen 

 branch or log. In the Pocono Moun- 

 tains I have found two nests during 

 June, 1906, and to my surprise, both 

 were placed fully two feet above the 

 ground in cavities in old rotten 

 stumps and both held five young. 



On the morning of May 7th, 1910, 

 I was exploring the bottomlands of 

 an almost inpenetrable swamp in 

 Stone Valley, Huntington County, Pa., 

 and about fourteen miles from State 

 College. While working my way along 

 the banks of the little pools in search 

 of Louisiana Water Thrush nests I 

 suddenly came upon a small Warbler's 

 nest, placed half way up in a bank 

 along a pool and a little back from 



the main creek. At that date it was 

 almost completed, but I readily identi- 

 fied it as the nest of the Black and 

 White Warbler tho no birds were seen. 

 On May 18th I returned and flushed 

 the female from a beautiful set of five 

 almost fresh eggs. She flew off chirp- 

 ing in the dense tangle of Rhoddoden- 

 drons, but seemed apparently very 

 little concerned. The eggs are rather 

 thickly and evenly spotted with fine 

 flecks and dots of reddish brown and 

 lilac. Later, my friend, Samuel Dick- 

 ey, took a set in the same locality. 



On June 2nd, 1913, I found a nest 

 near La Anna, Pike County, Pa., with 

 four full fledged young. The set in 

 this instance must have been com- 

 pleted by May 12, and as several other 

 nests found about June 6th have held 

 young, it can be seen that the Black 

 and White is an early nester, usually 

 having complete sets by May 20th. 

 Richard C. Harlow. 



My Start. 



Each year about the first of April, 

 or before, we feel restless. It is the 

 call of the woods and streams. 



About the first of April, 1912, I be- 

 gan to catch the fever. At that time 

 I did not know as much about birds' 

 nesting as the ordinary cat, so I de- 

 cided to get acquainted with Mr. E. 

 J. Darlington in some way or other 

 and as he only lived about five houses 

 from me that was not hard. 



When I first started I had only the 

 barn yard duck eggs and these with 

 a hole in each end big enough to 

 crawl through. I got acquainted with 

 Mr. Darlington about April 20, 1912; 

 he invited me up but we were going 

 away for the summer on June 10, and 

 you know "Absence makes the heart 

 grow fonder," so I waited. When I 

 came back from my vacation, I de- 

 cided to go up and see him as soon 

 as I could, so, on Sept. 30, 1912, I 



