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it deserted. All work had probably ceased when I had been detected looking 

 into it." 



The data concerning the Pine Warbler family pictured in this article are 

 as follows: Late in the afternoon of June 5, 1910, while in a field of thinly 

 scattered pitch pines near the Ten Mile River in Rumford, R. I., a male Pine 

 Warbler alighted in a bush a few yards from me, and allowed me to approach 

 almost within arm's length. A moment later I saw a female, carrying a small 

 green caterpillar, fly into the top of a nearby pine. I watched her closely, and 

 she flew into a second pine, and from that to half a dozen others successively, 

 until finally she departed from one of them without the caterpillar. Exam- 



PINE WARBLER COAXING FLEDGLING OFF NEST 



ination disclosed the nest, which was illy concealed, and saddled upon the 

 highest horizontal limb of a small tree, thirteen feet from the ground. 



I cHmbed up to it and found three full-fledged nestlings snuggled in the 

 scarcely sufficient hollow of their home, and basking with closed eyes in the 

 late sunshine. They gave no sign of recognizing my presence, even when I 

 shook the limb and tapped the sides of the nest. 



On the following day I was unable to visit the nest until evening, and 

 dusk was coming on when I arrived. The old birds were not in the tree, nor 

 did I find any indication of their presence nearby. The nest was undisturbed, 

 and I prepared to cHmb to it again, but no sooner had I grasped the trunk 

 of the tree than all three fledgUngs sprang out and flew to the ground in three 

 different directions; and it was with some difficulty that I succeeded in cap- 



