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section of the cattail bed bent down in a 

 continuous littered mass, as though it had 

 been the bed of some great bird instead of 

 that of hundreds of tiny individuals closely 

 huddled. The Swallows all leave these sleep- 

 ing quarters soon after daybreak, but often, 

 instead of leaving the marsh entirely, they 

 will resort to some tree or cluster of trees 

 and here rest for an hour or two before 

 scattering over the neighboring country 



never seen these birds here or anywhere 

 else in this north country in numbers which 

 compare with the swarms of Swallows I 

 have observed near the Hackensack 

 meadows near New York City. No doubt 

 northern New York is too far toward the 

 northern limit of the Swallows' summer 

 range to ever witness flocks of these birds 

 of the size they form as they progress 

 farther southward, adding to their numbers 



A SWALLOW WAY-STATION 

 Photographed by E. J. Sawyer 



to feed through the rest of the day. It 

 was at this time, or about 7 or 8 a.m., 

 that I rowed my boat to within several 

 yards of the birds assembled on a few low 

 willow trees, landed and made the picture 

 here shown. These birds were remarkably 

 tame, allowing me to approach to within 

 5 or 6 feet of them and to thrust my cara- 

 era, as it were, almost in their faces. 



Although the flocks of Swallows in these 

 marshes may well be called large, I have 



as they go. — E. J. Sawyer, Watertown, 

 N. Y. 



A Scene from the Home-life of the 

 Chestnut-sided Warbler 



The nest here shown was found at 

 Ithaca, N. Y., on June 15, 1915. It was on 

 a hillside covered with 'slash' from old 

 lumbering operations. This had since 

 grown up to a tangle of scrub second 



