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this date at Beach. The nest was about twenty feet up in a pine 

 stub. Besides this two large sets of ten have been found in former 

 years. 10. 



25. Chimney Swift (Chcettira pelagica), June 22nd, 1915. Nest 

 and five eggs found about four feet down in a chimney. The female 

 would not leave the chimney, but remained clinging below the 

 nest. 4. 



26. Ruby-throated Hummingbird (Archilochus colubris), June 

 25th, 1915. Nest about 35 feet up in white oak tree. Six feet 

 above it was a Redstart's nest with two eggs. Nest made of plant 

 down, and covered on the outside with lichens. On the 23rd the 

 nest limb was cut off at the trunk, but as the nest contained only 

 one egg, the limb was wedged tightly between two branches and 

 when revisited on the 25th the female was found sitting on two 

 eggs, despite the fact that the nest had been moved three feet. 1. 



27. Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus), June 10th, 1914. Three 

 eggs were found in a nest in the top of apple tree. The nest was 

 made mostly of grass. Another nest was found on a horizontal oak 

 limb, which also had three eggs. 6. 



28. Crested Flycatcher (Myiarchus crinitus) , June 2nd, 1915. 

 The only nest we have been able to locate, although this bird is 

 common throughout the county, was in a natural cavity forty feet 

 up in the broken top of a red oak. The three eggs were stained 

 yellow as if there had been a fourth egg which had been broken. 

 The nest contained the usual piece of snake skin. 



29. Phoebe (Sayornis plicehe) , May 4th, 1914. Nest composed of 

 moss, grass, and mud, plastered on a jagged rock in culvert. Five 

 eggs. This nest was collected and then the birds succeeded in 

 raising two broods. They nest in this culvert every year. 10. 



30. Wood Pewee (Myiochanes virens), June 28th, 1915. Thirty- 

 two feet up in the horizontal crotch of a white oak, a nest was 

 found; made of grass and covered with lichens and cobwebs. It 

 contained three eggs. 12. 



31. Blue Jay (Cyanocitta c. cristata) , June 15th, 1915. While 

 searching for a Migrant Shrike nest, we found this Blue Jay nest, 

 which held six eggs, about ten feet up in a hawthorn tree. An- 

 other set of six eggs was found May 2nd, 1914, in a thick cedar 

 tree. 25. 



32. American Crow (Corvus b. brachyrhynchos) , April 9th, 1915. 

 A nest was found in a leaning oak tree, made of sticks, grass, and 

 horse hair, and held the rather unusual number of seven eggs. At 

 least fifty nests found in two years. 



33. Bobolink (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). On June 2nd, 1914, we 

 found a dark chocolate colored set of six eggs in a ne?t of grass, 



