360 THE BIRDS 
south to southern Texas, the Gulf Coast, and southern 
Florida; casual west to base of the Rocky Mountains in 
Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado; winters most 
commonly south of the Ohio Valley and the Middle States ; 
resident in Bermuda; accidental in Cuba. 
One of our most common birds, and remains the entire 
year with us. The earliest record of a set of eggs is 
March 31, 1910, five in number. They were deposited 
in an artificial nesting cavity, made by sawing off a section 
of hollow log eight inches in diameter, and blocking up 
one end entirely, and the other partly so. A number of 
such nesting sites and tin cans are hung up around my 
farm, forming breeding places for several varieties of 
birds. The latest record for this bird is four young just 
hatched, August 27, 1910, making the third setting and 
brood hatched by this pair of birds in one season. The nest 
is nearly always made of just fine grasses, placed in a 
natural cavity or a deserted woodpecker’s hole in dead or 
live trees, from fourteen to twenty feet up. Eggs from 
four to five in number, a pale bluish-white, unmarked. 
Size, .82x.61. Every one knows the Bluebird and loves 
to have them around the premises. Since the introduction 
of the English Sparrow (and it has become such a pest 
around our outbuildings) Bluebirds have become less 
common, being driven away by them. Those remaining 
on my place seem to remain paired from year to year. In 
the summer time they destroy many worms, grubs, cater- 
pillars and beetles, while in the winter they offset a great 
part of this animal life with berries of the dogwood, 
mulberry, black-gum, holly, and dried-uwp poke berries. 
In the early spring and warm days of winter they give 
