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ity over a road. A slight depressed 

 platform of small sticks, lined with 

 several dry leaves and walnut catkins. 

 Female flushed; stayed away in si- 

 lence while nest was robbed. 



2. Two fresh eggs, July 29, 1899, 

 Holmesburg: Nest seven feet up inj 

 a willow along a creek and eight feet; 

 out on a horizontal limb, four inches, 

 thick, in a cluster of sprout. A plat-'M 



the side; eliptical in shape and meas- 

 ured 1.12 x .87 inches. 



6. Two fresh eggs, June 12, 1903, 

 Frankford: Nest six feet up in an 

 alder bush along creek in alder thick- 

 et, containing many willow and White 

 Ash Trees, placed on a horizontal 

 branch near the top. A platform of 

 dry cucumber vine stems, lined with 

 several dry willow leaves and willow 



form 'of small sticks and twigs, linedM catkins ; fairly well constructed. It 

 with dead willow leaves; it measures^ measured about six inches across the 

 seven inches across the top, and was fc top and was half an inch deep, and 

 depressed half an inch. The femalefe one and one-half inches thick Eg£ 

 was flushed. G.U*M blue; eliptical; size, 1.11 i 



.79, 



3. Three eggs, two 



fresh and one!§1.05 x .83 inches. Female reluctantly 



far advanced, June 18, 1902, Frank-jg flushed off the nest. 



ford: Nest eight feet up in a poison-jf 7. Three eggs, one fresh and others 



ivy vine-covered spicewood bushMbegun 



incubation, June 12, 190; 



placed on the vines and twigs, in &\iJ 

 woods. Composed of small sticks and" ! 

 twigs, lined with oak catkins, loosely 

 put together and about half foot wide 

 across thd-top and depressed half an 

 inch. Eggs eliptical; light blue, one 

 a darker shade; size, 1.15 x .91, 1.14 

 x .88 inches. Female was flushed. 



4. Two eggs, one half incubated 

 and the other far advanced, June 27, 

 1902, Lanndale: Nest placed five feet 

 up in top of large, thick clump of 

 blackberry bushes in field beside 

 thicket at bottom of low railroad em- 

 bankment, well hidden from view by 

 the foliage. A shallow bottom of 

 I leaves, weed stalks and grass stems, 

 lined with grass stems and two 

 leaves. Eggs light blue, eliptical; 

 size, 1.15 x .88, 1.12 x .84 inches. Fe- 

 male flushed off nest. 



5. One rotten egg. October 1(5, 

 1902, Frankford: Nest long deserted 

 'was twelve feet up in a triple crotch 

 of a willow sprout along three-fringed 

 creek and was loosely put together 

 and made of small sticks and twigs, 

 and lined with fine weed and grass 

 stems, very slightly depressed. The 

 egg was dirty and disclosed a hole in 



Frankford: Nest in same alder tract 

 as the preceeding, about one hundred 

 yards away, placed five feet up in a 

 double elder crotch amidst a thick 

 clump of these bushes in the creek 

 bank, within ten feet of the stream, 

 and well hidden like the other; made 

 of few twigs and dry herbaceous 

 (wild cucumber) vine stems, loosely 

 put together, and lined with dry wil- 

 low leaves and catkins. It measured: 

 Outside 6% inches; inside, 4 inches; 

 depth outside, 1% inches; inside, % 

 inch. Eggs light blue and eliptical; 

 size 1.04 x .79, 1.06 x .84, 1.04 x .80 

 inches. 



8. Two naked young and a half in- 

 cubated egg, June 14, 1905, Frankford: 

 Nest six feet up in a tangle of spice- 

 wood bushes and blackberry briers 

 in edge of woods, fairly well hidden, 

 and near a yellow-bellied Cuckoo's 

 nest containing three eggs. Losely 

 put together and made of small sticks 

 and twigs lined with hickory catkins. 

 Hardly depressed. Brooding female 

 almost touched, behaved very excited- 

 ly, cried and fluttered about. Nest 

 empty on 22d. 



9. Nest just started, June 6, 1905, 



