22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Song Sparrow — Melospiza melodia melodia. Abundant. Three 

 nests were found, one of which was of interest because of its 

 somewhat unusual situation. We were out July 5th, running a 

 survey line, and as one of the party cut into a young white pine 

 to blaze it, one of these birds fluttered out from the top and 

 disappeared into the underbrush. A close look showed me the 

 nest, fully ten feet from the ground, and well concealed. It 

 held three incubated eggs. 



Barn Swallow — Hirundo erythrogastra. A common summer 

 resident. A late nest was found July 27th, holding at that 

 date four incubated eggs. 



Cliff Swallow — Petrochelidon lunifrons lunifrons. A few were 

 noticed about all the barns, nesting in the overshoot. A late 

 nest examined July 23rd, was found to hold three slightly incu- 

 bated eggs. 



Cedar Waxwing — Bombycilla cedrorum. Common in the open 

 country. A nest found July 5th, held five slightly incubated 

 eggs and was fully forty feet from the ground in the top of a 

 large black willow at the side of a road. This is the highest 

 that I have ever known the birds to nest. Another that held 

 five incubated eggs, July 16th, was ten feet from the ground at 

 the outer end of a limb of a large hemlock, very well concealed 

 by a large grape vine that covered the tree. 



Blue-headed Vireo — Lanivireo solitarius solitarius. A plenti- 

 ful summer resident. A late nest found Aug. 8th, held four well- 

 fledged young and was ten feet from the ground in the top of a 

 small table-mountain pine ( Pinus pungens) , at the edge of an 

 open spot in the woods. The situation seemed unusual to 

 me in that the nest was suspended from two small limbs close 

 to the main trunk and not from tlie fork of one branch. The 

 adult birds were rather timid, and very suspicious, beginning 

 to scold when anyone was within one hundred feet of the nest. 



Black-throated Blue Warbler — Dendroica caerulescens cae- 

 rulescens. Common deep in the woods. A nest found July 3rd, 

 held one fresh egg, and was half a foot from the ground in a 

 small laurel bush. It was composed of grasses and strips of 

 bark, lined with black rootlets and the white hair of some ani- 

 mal. No birds were observed anywhere near it. 



