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time. The blind was closed at 7 :30 with the female on the 

 nest. During the night a terrific rain and wind storm oc- 

 curred, and when I entered the blind the next morning at 

 5 :00 the female was on the nest but it was wet thru and 

 Blue was dead. 



The death of the nestlings thru the feeding period and 

 the lack of assistance by the male accounts for the much low- 

 er number of feedings as compared with the brown thrasher 

 studied in the same vicinity in 1911^ and the yellow warbler 

 as reported by Bigglestone.^ The brown thrasher made 775 

 visits in 56 hours, the yellow warbler 2373 in 14i hours and 

 53 minutes, and the catbird only 517 in 143 hours and 10 

 minutes. This total does not include visits where food was 

 brought to the nest and then devoured by the parent. 



The distribution of feedings thru the various days was as 

 follows : July twenty-first, 10 feedings ; twenty-second, 35 

 feedings ; twenty-third, 38 feedings ; twenty-fourth, 57 feed- 

 ings ; twenty-fifth, 39 feedings ; twenty-sixth, 71 feedings ; 

 twenty-seventh, 55 feedings ; twenty-eighth, 64 feedings ; 

 twenty-ninth, 96 feedings ; and the thirtieth, 51 feedings. It 

 will be noted from this data, that the daily number of feed- 

 ings shows a tendency to increase. This is disturbed by three 

 factors. First, after the death of each one of the two young. 

 Brown on the twenty-fourth and the twenty-sixth when 

 White ceased to receive food, there is a decided drop in the 

 number of feedings. Second, on the twenty-fifth, one of the 

 rainy days, the number of feedings is lowered. The other 

 rainy day, the twenty-second, came too close to the begin- 

 ning of the study to make it possible to say how much the 

 number of feedings was affected. On these rainy days the 

 female was almost constantly brooding during the storm and 

 consequently the time for hunting was much shortened. 



^A Study of the Home Life of the Brown Thrasher. (Toxostoma 

 Riifiim Liun.), by Ira N. Gabrielson. Wilson Bulletin, Vol. XXIV, 

 June, 1912. 



^ A Study of the Nesting Behavior of the Yellow "Warbler. 

 (Dendroica a. cestiva), by Harry C. Bigglestone. Wilson Bulletin, 

 Vol. XXV, June, 1913. 



