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The nest held four eggs, upon which 

 the parent bird was sitting. When 

 the nest was disturbed, both birds 

 flitted nearby uttering their guttural 

 "quut" in energetic scolding. Farther 

 on, about a hundred feet from this 

 nest, another nest of Catbird was 

 found, in a tangle of bent ash, sumach 

 and grape, the location being in the 

 margin of he sapling growth below 

 the parapet enclosing the roadway. 

 The site was on interlacing forks and 

 stems, about three and a half feet 

 from the ground, chiefly in wild grape 

 and sumach. There were four fuzzy 

 young in the nest. 



11. Robin. On June 7 a nest of 

 Robin was examined. It was in the 

 tangle selected by the Catbirds above 

 mentioned, and this Robin was a very 

 near neighbor to one of the Catbird 

 pairs. The sit was the lowest branches 

 of a small hemlock along the path 

 through the station grounds. It was 

 built against the main stem, not more 

 than three feet from the ground, in 

 plain view from the nearby pathway. 

 This nest contained young well 

 feathered. 



12. Chestnut-sided Warbler. On 

 June 7 a nest of Chestnut-sided Wra- 

 bler was examined. It was also in the 

 tangle mentioned on the station or 

 or boat-landing grounds, near the Inn, 

 in the sloping zone of shrubbery be- 

 tween the motor highway and the 

 lower road through the grounds. This 

 nest was in blackberry sprouts, made 

 among upright stems and forking 

 twigs, about two feet from the ground, 

 and the site was as quite character- 

 istic, for it utilized upright forks 

 made by this year's growth and last 

 season's dead branches. The plant 

 containing the nest was among bram- 

 bles resembling it so that the site was 

 in no way obvious. The structure was 

 rather shabby in appearance, made 

 outwardly of dingy dried grasses and 



bark sheds, with several fragments of 

 wasp paper. It was lined with fine 

 dried grasses and horse-hair, the lat- 

 ter being placed rather loosely in 

 position. There were fuzzy young in 

 the nest, and the female chirped 

 nervously around the place during my 

 presence, while the male flitted in the 

 nearby bushes with quivering wings 

 but making no sound. 



13. Red-eyed Vireo. On June 8 a 

 nest of Red-eyed Vireo was examined, 

 in the scrubbing along the base of 

 Bear Mountain bordering the Inn 

 grounds. The site was in the lowest 

 branches of a chestnut sapling, the 

 nest being suspended as usual from 

 the brim in a fork, under a leaf can- 

 opy about six feet from the ground. 

 While the female was sitting on her 

 four eggs, the male was singing not 

 far away. 



14. Yellow-breasted Chat. This Chat 

 was not observed in the Park except 

 in the vicinity of Bear Mountain, and 

 there it inhabitated the laurel bush at 

 the base of the mountain fringing the 

 Inn grounds. The calls and cries of 

 the male serve as a guide to the lo- 

 cation of the nest, and almost at the 

 very center of the song, activities of 

 a Chat songster I found the nest which 

 inspired his odd expressions of joy- 

 ousness. On June 8 I examined the 

 nest, which was in a low, thick-set, 

 densely-flowering laurel shrub. The 

 site was in upright forks under the 

 umbrella-like canopy of leaves and 

 flowers, about two feet from the 

 ground. The female was on the nest 

 when I uncovered it, and after leav- 

 ing it she scolded vigorously around 

 the place, calling "scamp" in protest, 

 in which she was soon joined by the 

 male. The location was in a little sun- 

 lit area crowded with laurel in rich 

 bloom, while all around was the hill- 

 side scrub in wild tangle. There were 

 helpless young in this nest. As a part 



