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vious season. We saw a Short-eared 

 Owl that had been nailed up on the 

 side of a hunter's cabin, and a Red- 

 tailed Hawk which the farmer had 

 nailed to his barn door. At one place 

 crows were seen chasing a pair of 

 Great Horned Owls. 



Hooded, chestnut-sided, black- 

 throated green, black-throated blue, 

 and black-and-white Warblers were 

 frequently seen. Louisiana Water 

 thrushes and Maryland Yellow-throats 

 were abundant. 



On May 30, Mr. David E. Harrower, 

 accompanied me to the valley, and he 

 discovered a beautiful nest and four 

 eggs of the Hooded Warbler. This 

 nest was built about four feet up in 

 some low saplings. Redstarts were 

 nesting, but any amount of search- 

 ing failed to reveal a nest. Oven- 

 birds were common, and I found three 

 nests. In a clump of raspberry briers, 

 I flushed a female Golden-winged 

 Warbler from her nest and five fine 

 eggs; it was built four inches above 

 the ground. A pair of these Warb- 

 lers could be heard singing at any 

 suitable clearing where there were 

 plenty of briers for them to hide in. 

 Altogether six nests were found con- 

 taining eggs or young. In each case 

 five was complement of the nest. Mr. 

 Harrower found a Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler's nest four feet up in a clus- 

 ter of low bushes; it held four eggs. 

 As I passed through a small second 

 growth woods of chestnuts which lay 

 on a slight hillside, T caught sight of 

 a female Black-and-White Warbler as 

 she sat on her cozy nest, at the base 

 of a sugar maple sprout. She sat so 

 closely that I was able to approach 

 within three feet of her and secure a 

 fine photograph. She soon fluttered 

 from her nest and revealed five beau- 

 tiful eggs, resting on the warm lining 

 of horse hair. 



In a large woods three miles down 

 the valley Harlow and I found the 



nest of a pair of Solitary Vireos. It 

 held four young birds. The parents 

 came to the nest frequently with food 

 for the young. This nest was built 

 in a small fork of a flowering Dog- 

 wood tree that grew at the base of a 

 hill. Nearby we found a number of 

 Parula Warblers which were undoubt- 

 edly nesting in the huge white pines, 

 but we failed to find a nest. Some 

 days later Harlow found a Blackburn- 

 ian Warbler's nest in an unaccessable 

 position high up in a large white pine. 

 Under a bank of sod, by a pool of 

 water, he found a nest and five lovely 

 eggs of the Louisiana Water-thrush. 

 Early in June several nests of the 

 Maryland Yellow-throat were found; 

 all of these held less than five eggs. 

 Yellow-breasted Chats were seen and 

 a nest with four eggs found in a brier 

 patch. In some of the deeper and 

 more secluded ravines I saw Canadian 

 Warblers but failed to find a nest. 



I saw Northern Ravens several 

 times as they flew from mountain 

 ridge to mountain ridge. These birds 

 nest on the secluded rocky cliffs in 

 the wilder parts of the maintains. 

 A nest found on March thirteenth 

 held five eggs. The nest was a huge 

 affair of sticks, and was warmly lined 

 with hair from the belly of a deer. 



Quite a number of commoner birds 

 were seen, such as House Wren, Bal- 

 timore Oriole, Dawny Woodpecker, 

 Red-eyed Vireo, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, 

 Wood Pewee, etc. 



American Woodcock were most 

 plentiful of the game birds seen. Dur- 

 ing twilight we watched and heard 

 their flight song. This is a beautiful 

 sight. The male bird rises high in 

 the air, hovers there singing, then 

 suddenly drops to the earth. He is 

 answered by the female who utters 

 the peculiar notes, "scape, scape." 

 The Woodcocks nest here during early 

 April. S. S. Dickey. 



Waynesburg, Pa. 



