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female or nest. In the afternoon Mr. Parmalee came with tools and wagon 

 to help me take up the nest and get it ready to ship. I found the young 

 quite well feathered and very timid. They scrambled out of the nest and 

 hid in the plants several feet away when I attempted to photograph them, 

 thus making it difficult to get a picture. The female came with a worm in 

 her mouth to within two feet of me. She also alighted on the toe of Mr. 

 Parmalee's shoe, but did not pose long enough for a photograph. After 

 getting a photograph of the nest and its vicinity I shot the pair of birds 

 and kept the young alive. We dug up the nest and started for Mr. Parma- 

 lee's, ariving after dark. I kept the young alive, by feeding them house- 

 flies, until the 13th. Then they died, and I made skins of them, preserving 

 the bodies. I had hoped to rear these young, at least to keep them alive 

 until I reached Ann Arbor. I evidently did not have the variety of food 

 required, although they ate from six to ten flies each at a time and then went 

 to sleep very contentedly. 



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Fig. 4. Site of the second Known nest of Kirtland's Warbler, 

 Craw^ford County, Mich. 



On the morning of July 14th Mr. Parmalee and I drove to North 

 branch again, as I wished to secure the second nest, and the birds. I took 

 a few snap-shots of the nest (Fig. 4), then dug it up with its beautiful sur- 

 roundings. I brought the five young birds back alive, but they died the next 



