on entering the tool-bouse, to see the Wren f 1 y 

 from the nest, and it is needless to say, that the 

 Wren raised her brood in peace. 

 In my records of early and late nesting among 

 the small birds are; Sep. 10th, 1894, Mocking- 

 bird, 3 slightly incubated eggs; Mar 13th, 1895, 

 Dove, 2 fresh eggs: Sep.2nd. 1895, Mockingbird, 

 4 fresh eggs; Aug.20th, 1899, Bluejay, 4 partly 

 incubated eggs. In the year of 1896, while 



strolling through an old field, I saw a Doves nest 

 in a pear tree, and on climbing to it was very 

 much surprised to find 4 eggs, all perfectly freshi 

 and only one pair of birds anywhere around. 

 For the first time in my life, I found on Aug. 10, 

 1897, a Cowbirds egg here. I found it in a nest 

 of the painted Bunting togeather with three eggs 

 of that bird, all of the eggs were rotten. 

 At a place about a mile from home I happened to 

 look up into an elm tree, on May day in '9?, and 

 saw a Sparrows nest eight feet from the ground. 

 As 1 have a great dislike for this little pest I tore 

 the mass of hay and feathers off the limb, imag- 

 ine my surprise to find a nest of the Orchard Or- 

 iole under it, completely hidden. The nest con- 



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