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his family was when we approached the bhncl c-r at the pres- 

 ence of some other bird. When we came near the bhnd. he 

 swung out over onr heads uttering the whistHng note which 

 Nehrling renders " Tii-tii." He ceased this as soon as we 

 disappeared in the bHnd and resumed his song. 



In his relations with his bird neig"hbors he was far from 

 being friendly. His nearest neighbor was a Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak which had a nest not twenty-five feet from that of 

 the Red-wing. When not engaged in fighting away other 

 birds, the two males spent much time in fighting each other 

 with the Grosbeak generally victorious. On one occasion a 

 Bronzed Grackle alighted in a willow between the two nests 

 and both males flew at him driving him out of the vicinity. 

 A Catbird and Brown Thrasher had both raised families a 

 short distance away and the young we-re just out of the nest. 

 Hardly a minute of the day passed but what one could hear 

 the squalling of one of these and the cries of the Red-wing 

 as he drove them away. On the morning when we returned 

 to find the nest destroyed, he was still on guard as bravely 

 and as conspicuously as ever and seemingly undisturbed by 

 the trao"edv in his family. 



NOTES FROM THE LAUREXTIAX HILLS. 



Yellow-Bellied Flycatcher. Golden-Crowned Kingt-et. 

 .\ND Bl.xckp.urnian Warhler. 



r.v L. MCl. terrill. 



Exploring in the Laurentians has all the fascination of 

 fishing for me ; one never knows what to expect at the tu-rn 

 of the road, and the road turns often. Though fire has 

 raged in many sections, the rocky and broken nature of the 

 country ])revents a continuous burning. 



Most uninviting vistas change abru])tly ; one climbs a burnt 

 hillside — gray boulders and charred stumps peeping through 

 a dense undergrowth of 1 'racken and Raspberry vines — sur- 



