INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS. 



My first tramping-ground was the garden, enclosing eight 

 acres of varied land, flowers, brush, open, plenty of trees, 

 deciduous and evergreen, and a little pool of clear water. 

 During the seasons of which I have the record forty species 

 of birds have nested within its borders, and oftentimes many 

 pairs of the same species ; for example, as last year, when 

 the garden sheltered five pensile nests of the Red-eyed 

 Vireo. These forty nests were located in the following 

 manner : — 



Bobin : In vines, hedge, and trees. 

 Wood Thrush : Spruces, bushes. 

 Catbird : Syringa bushes, and other shrubs. 

 Bluebird : Hole in old tree and bird-house. 

 Wren : Little houses and in outbuildings. 

 Yellow Warbler : Apple tree and elder bushes. 

 Maryland Yellow-throat : Tall grass and bushes. 

 Chat : Barberry bush. 

 Bedstart: Spruces. 

 Tanager : Swamp oak. 

 Barn Swallow :. Hay loft. 

 Purple Martin : Bird-house. 



Bed- eyed Vireo: Sugar-maple, apple tree, and birches. 

 White-eyed Vireo : Beech. 

 English Sparrow : Everywhere, until banished. 

 Purple Finch : Old quince-hedge. 

 Goldfinch : Sugar-maples. 

 Vesper Sparrow : Smoke-bush. 

 Grasshopper Sparrow : Under small spruce. 

 Song Sparrow : In many places, — hedge, bushes, ground. 

 Chipping Sparrow : High in evergreens, also in shrubs. 

 Field Sparrow : Meadow-sweet bush. 

 Towhee : On ground under a wild grape tangle. 

 Cowbird : Eggs found in the nests of a dozen different birds, particu- 

 larly the Song Sparrow's. 

 Orchard Oriole : Old apple tree. 

 Baltimore Oriole : Elms on lawn. 

 Crow : Top of spruce. 

 Kingbird : In pear tree. 



Phoebe : On beams in shed, also on bracket supporting the porch. 

 Chimney Swift : In brick-chimney. 

 Hummingbird : Cedars, elm, beech, and high in a spruce. 

 Yellow-billed Cuckoo : Wild tangle of vines, etc. 



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