22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Carter and Stuart remained two days longer. On the six- 

 teenth, near the head of the Lake, Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers 

 were observed feeding young, which fact establishes the early 

 breeding of this species in the region. Several Bronzed Grackles 

 were seen and the first Veery's nest was found. 



On the twenty-sixth of June Stuart and myself returned to 

 the Poconos and spent the day there. Our mission was to col- 

 lect the nest of the Alder Flycatcher which contained but one 

 egg when Stuart and Carter left on the sixteenth and to inquire 

 further into the nesting habits of the Nashville Warbler. 



When we examined the Alder Flycatcher's nest in the early 

 morning, we were dismayed to find that it had been destroyed. 

 Evidently the bird had become aware of its discovery and had 

 done away with it. We hunted the neighboring swamp for a 

 new one, but without success. It was to be regretted that this 

 first record of the nest from Pennsylvania was to be obliterated 

 in this manner. 



Yet we hoped for better fortune among our so-called Nash- 

 ville Warblers' nests in the tamarack swamps of Butz Run. 

 Here, too, disappointment awaited us, for not one of the three 

 nests contained an egg. We were beginning to believe that our 

 trip was to be a fruitless one when Stuart flushed a bird, which 

 he recognized to be a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, as it paused 

 a moment upon a low shrub before him. At his feet in the 

 side of a raised sphagnum mound reposed its nest. Formed of 

 moss, soft grasses and pine needles, it was a nest well worth the 

 trip to have obtained. It contained four eggs of creamy white 

 with pale cinnamon-brown spots. What was the value of the 

 find ? It convinced us that the nests that we had been holding 

 under observation were old or abandoned ones of this species 

 and not of the Nashville Warbler. On this day no Nashville 

 Warblers were heard in either of the two bogs where the nests 

 occurred. The presence of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher was 

 still marked. Later in the morning we heard two Nashvilles 

 in the open sphagnum moors above Butz Run, which seemed to 

 establish them, as summer residents however, about Pocono 

 Lake, Who will determine their nesting grounds ? 



The Olive-sided Flycatcher which had been so conspicuous a 



