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to photograph her to my heart's content, the only trouble being that hardly 

 anything but the end of her bill was visible. 



By the 26th I was fairly certain that she would not desert, so I took the 

 liberty of tipping the nest toward the camera, and in this manner obtained 

 a much better view of her, as she sat motionlessly watching me snap the 

 shutter and change plate-holders less than five feet from her, the front leg 

 of the tripod being planted directly under the nest. 



On June i the eggs hatched, and both parents took part in the feeding 

 of the young. The male had hitherto been very little in evidence near the nest, 

 but he now worked vigorously, being so busy that he had to cut his swee-zee- 



FEMALE GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER ON NEST 

 Photographed by Maunsell S. Crosby, May 26, 191 1 



zee-zee song down to a curt swee-zee, not, however, long drawn out, like the 

 Blue-winged Warbler's note. I may here state that in 1910, when a pair of 

 Golden-wings nested not far from this same spot, I noticed that the male's 

 only song was the real Blue-wing's song, a prolonged "swee-zee," the first 

 part apparently inhaled and the last exhaled. This seems odd, as I have never 

 recorded a Blue-winged Warbler in this county, and the only Brewster's 

 Warbler I ever saw (May 8 and 9, 1909) sang the usual Golden- winged War- 

 bler's song. 



Continuous bad weather interfered with my photographing the old birds 

 feeding their young, and only on June 9, the day before they left the nest, 

 was I able to spend an hour with them; and then the results were unsatisfactory. 



