DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 21 



Phoebe — Sayornis phoebe. Found everywhere. July 2nd, I 

 looked under three bridges that crossed small streams near our 

 camp, and under each found a nest, on or against a beam within 

 a few feet of the water. Each nest held four eggs, varying in 

 incubation. Three days later, on the 5th, I found another nest 

 with five incubated eggs, against a beam in the roof of the over- 

 shoot of a barn. 



Goldfinch — Astragalinus tristis tristis. Rather plentiful in the 

 open country. Six nests were found, all varying considerably 

 in respect to situation as the following data will show. Aug. 

 2nd, — Five slightly incubated eggs, ten feet from the ground in 

 the top of an osage-orange tree at the side of the road. Aug. 

 4th, — Five slightly incubated eggs, fifteen feet from the ground 

 in the top of a small apple tree in an orchard. Four slightly 

 incubated eggs, six feet from the ground in a small white elm 

 at the side of a road. Aug. 9, — Three incubated eggs, fifteen 

 feet from the ground at the outer end of a limb of a large sugar 

 maple at the side of a road. Five slightly incubated eggs, ten 

 feet from the ground in a small white elm in a thicket at the 

 edge of a field. Aug. 10, six incubated eggs, thirty feet from 

 the ground in the top of a large yellow birch at the side of a 

 road. 



English Sparrow — Passer domesticus. As would be expected, 

 these birds were far from scarce about the town and around the 

 farms and were surely holding up very well their reputation for 

 destructiveness. July 13th, five half-grown young were found 

 in a Cliff Swallow's nest, and July 26th, three fresh eggs were 

 found in a Barn Swallow's nest. Both of these nests were char- 

 acterized by unsightly appearance, due to the loose grasses and 

 feathers that had been later added. 



Chipping Sparrow — Spizella passerina passer ina. Common 

 about the town and about the scattered farms in the open 

 valleys. Two nests were found. One, June 26th, held three in- 

 cubated eggs and was eight feet from the ground in a horizontal 

 crotch on the outer end of a limb of a large white oak. The 

 other, found July 2nd, held four slightly incubated eggs and 

 was twenty-five feet from the ground near the top of a pear tree 

 in an orchard. 



