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which perched in a tall tree by a farm 

 house yard. At the farm house we ar- 

 ranged to stay for a couple of days. 

 After procuring lunch we went to a 

 large wood a short distance west of 

 Cresson. As we neared its edge we 

 could hear the sweet song of a veery 

 nearby. Several Black-throated Blue 

 Warblers were also heard singing from 

 the deeper parts of the wood. Beside 

 a cluster of huge white pine trees we 

 stopped to rest a moment and soon 

 heard the buzzing of a Parula Warbler. 

 I made a careful search for the 

 nest but failed to find one. Be- 

 side a large tulip tree stump, I 

 flushed a female Junco with feeding 

 material in her bill. I made a search 

 and found two young birds perched on 

 the lower branches of some saplings. 

 My friend went into the woods and 

 soon found a nest of the Magnolia 

 Warbler. It was built on the end of a 

 drooping hemlock branch and was 

 about thirty feet above the ground. 

 Upon examination it was found to con- 

 tain four incubated eggs. The Black- 

 throated Blue Warblers kept up their 

 singing, so I decided to search care- 

 fully among the low beech sprouts for 

 a nest. Finally I found one built in 

 a cluster of low sprouts; it was two 

 feet up and held a single egg which 

 had been sucked by some prowler. I 

 made a further search for the nests of 

 the Warbler but failed to find any new 

 ones. 



However, I did discover two or three 

 last year's nests. In a small beech 

 sapling I found a newly constructed 

 nest of the Veery Thrush. Careful 

 hunting among the low hemlocks re- 

 vealed another nest of the Magnolia 

 Warbler, but as yet it held no eggs. 

 Later two more nests of this Warbler 

 were found, — one was fifteen feet up 

 in a hemlock and the other was five 

 feet up in some tall briers that border- 

 ed the wood. Both of these nests held 



four eggs respectively. In a low beech 

 sprout, I found a second nest of the 

 Veery which held a single blue egg. 



In the evening we walked to a dense 

 slashing east of town. Here we heard 

 a number of Juncos and Verrys sing- 

 ing their evening songs. We also not- 

 ed several Canadian Warblers; one 

 of them made quite a demonstration 

 at our presence but we failed to find a 

 nest. At one place a Junco made some 

 fuss, so my friend watched it for a 

 short time and finally saw it take 

 building material to a newly made 

 nest; it was a depression under the 

 corner of a large lime stone which lay 

 by a path, just inside the woods. At 

 this place the Juncos were quite num- 

 erous. As darkness approached we 

 decided to go back and return on the 

 morrow. 



We were up early the following 

 morning and on hand in time to hear a 

 number of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks 

 singing. Several Black-throated Blue 

 Warblers sang from the tangle of rhod- 

 odendron, so I went in to search for 

 a nest. However, I failed to discover 

 it, even though the female bird made 

 a great fuss. In a slender beech sap- 

 ling we found a Rose-breasted Gros- 

 beak's nest which held but two eggs. 

 Further on were two more nests of 

 this bird but they held no eggs at 

 that time. The Canadian Warblers 

 were certainly nesting nearby because 

 they seemed so annoyed at our pres- 

 ence. In the deep ravine they became 

 tolerably common. At one place we 

 saw a Northern Raven fly across the 

 wooded hill. Louisiana Water-thrushes 

 were quite numerous in the ravines 

 where clear streams splashed along. 

 The country about Cresson seems to 

 be suited for some of the Northern 

 birds but comparatively few of the 

 common and more Southern birds were 

 noticed. S. S. Dickey. 



Waynesburg, Pa. 



