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fectly "at home" there. The next day (July 7th), I returned to the same 

 place, and hoped this time to surprise the female on the nest. T therefore 

 very cautiously approached the spot, and while still a few rods away, flushed 

 her from the ground. She flew a few feet and rested on a small jack 

 pine. I examined the spot where I flushed her, but found no nest. She 

 acted the same as the day before, fluttering her wings and tumbling to the 

 ground, all the time uttering a faint chip-chip. I searched the ground care- 

 fully for several rods around this spot, but failed to find the nest. I did 

 find a place at the base of a small jack pine which looked as if hollowed 

 out for a nest. T have not been able to account for the peculiar actions of 

 this female at the two places unless this hollow was the beginning of the 



Fig. 2. The first known nest of Kirtland's Warbler. 



nest. I visited this spot a few days later, but failed to find either bird. This 

 pair of birds made five birds that I had seen and heard. The first colony 

 contained two pair of birds, and this colony two pair more. I saw three 

 birds here. 



On the morning of July 8th T started in company with Mr. J. A. 

 Parmalee to drive to the North Branch of the Au Sable, about seven miles 

 distant. Mr. Parmalee was with Mr. Gale when he shot the Kirtland 

 Warbler on June loth. The valley of the Au Sable is from three to five 

 miles wide at this place, and is terraced. The first terrace is about fifteen 



