DELAWARE VALLEY OROTTHOLOQICAL CLUB 23 



bird of this district in the earlier month was no longer to be 

 found. Nests of the Cedarbird and the Black-throated Green 

 Warbler were new ones obtained this day; they had not been 

 secured earlier in the month. 



When we returned to Philadelphia, Baily was advised of our 

 finding the nest of the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. He at once 

 looked up the photographs which he had taken two years before 

 and was convinced that his nest also was that of the Flycatcher 

 and not of the Nashville Warbler as he had assumed. His 

 photographs of the bird upon the nest clearly indicate the pale 

 eye-ring of the Flycatcher and the white upon the wing coverts. 

 It is indeed interesting to note that these pictures had been 

 shown before a convention of the American Ornithologists Union 

 as being of the Nashville Warbler, without arousing any adverse 

 comment. However, it remained for Baily to complete the 

 work of this expedition. On July 17th he again visited the 

 swamp border, where we found and lost the first nest of the 

 Alder Flycatcher. " On July 17th, " he writes, " I found a new 

 nest containing three fresh eggs in almost the same spot or 

 within six feet of the former nest ; it was well hidden and it 

 was by the luckiest chance that I happened to see it. The bird 

 was not flushed, but was generally heard uttering its short, harsh 

 note at a distance of one hundred to five hundred feet away, 

 giving little clew to the general position of the nest. While I 

 was photographing, the parent bird ventured within fifteen feet 

 of me, yet all the time hidden in the thickets and occasionally 

 uttering an unconcerned low single note. The nest was built 

 of soft, bleached grass, lined with fine thin material. The eggs 

 were rich cream color spotted almost exactly like the Wood 

 Pewee's egg. I think this nest is the first recorded in the State. ' ' 



On July 19th Baily again visited the tamarack swamps above 

 Butz Run and found another nest of Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 

 with young. 



What were the net results of these days spent among Pocono 

 birds ? Sixty-eight species had been observed, twenty -seven of 

 which were found nesting ; of Canadian forms there were ten, 

 of Transitional three, of forms extending from the Transitional 

 into the Carolinian seven, of species widely spread eight. 



