DELAWARE VALLEY ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB 19 



tive call-note was frequently heard, the bird itself was seldom 

 observed. 



To the east of those positions occur dense, low woods of 

 spruce, so dense that little direct light penetrates them, so bar- 

 ren as to be utterly devoid of undergrowth, the ground beneath- 

 being covered deep with mats of brown needles. From the 

 recesses of these frequently came the song of the Olive-backed! 

 Thrush. No nest was found. 



Near the head of Butz Run the Parula Warbler was compar- 

 atively common. Beyond there is an absence of standing tim- 

 ber. Bleached boles clearly indicate the visitation of fire several 

 years earlier. At a distance of probably one-half mile a solitary 

 Olive-sided Flycatcher called from the top of a dead tree. ' ' Quip- 

 que-peu-ah" came his note from over the intervening spaces or 

 ** Three Cheers," as Stuart would have it. Into the late after- 

 noon we hunted for its mossy nest among the isolated ever- 

 greens without success. Upon returning across these desolate 

 sphagnum moors we were awarded with the sight of an eagle 

 soaring high overhead. 



When we returned that evening to the bungalow we again 

 hunted in its immediate vicinity. On a spruce branch, six feet 

 from the ground Carter discovered a Magnolia Warbler's nest. 

 The nest was remarkable in its structure. Loosely woven grass- 

 stems stretched out on all sides fully twelve inches from the 

 bulk of the material. The nest itself was composed of grass 

 and weed stems lined with vegetable fiber and black rootlets 

 resembling horsehair. The four eggs possessed rufous- brown 

 markings, principally at the larger end. 



In a nearby thicket a Whitethroat's nest containing four eggs 

 was found. Carter had again taken up the hunt for the nest of 

 the Alder Flycatcher and carefully surveyed the swamp bor- 

 dering the lake. At length he came across a small nest of 

 bleached grasses, placed two feet from the ground in a viburnum 

 bush. No bird had been noted in its vicinity. It remained to 

 be absolutely identified upon another day. 



At dusk Baily announced the finding of a Hermit Thrush's 

 nest behind the bungalow in a raised hummock. It contained 

 four eggs. 



