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and water, proceed to an open field where 
he can be reasonably sure of finding some 
of the honey-makers at work, drive the 
sharp end of his stick firmly into the 
ground, smear some of his sugar paste 
on the square top, and settle himself for a 
quiet wait. If bees are working in his 
locality they will soon be after his sugar. 
Having gathered a load they will rise 
slowly upward a few feet and then 
head for home. By watching the direction 
taken and moving accordingly Mr. Tufts 
will eventually find either a bee tree in 
the woods or a beehive in a farm yard, 
as the bees may be wild or not. Should a 
hive be the objective point all that re- 
mains for Mr. Tufts to do is to look for 
bees going in another direction and try 
again, with the chances equally in favor of 
another hive. 
By touching a bee on the back with a 
particle of the wet sugar on a spear of 
grass, he can be recognized on his return 
(for come he will) and the hunter can then 
move a greater or less distance according 
to whether the bee was gone a long or a 
short time. 
I know a good-thing when I see it, and 
do not intend to miss any number of REc- 
REATION, as I am much taken with it. 
Jo He Mz Jersey . City, N23: 

NOTES ON WARBLERS OF KALASKA, MICH. 
Birds of this class are so shy and retir- 
ing in their habits that the ordinary ob- 
server is not acquainted with more than 
one or 2 species. Mr. Morse, state game 
warden, kindly granted me a permit to 
take one pair each of all birds found in 
this county, with a few exceptions. I have 
thus far found the following warblers: 
Black throated green warbler, Dendroica 
virens. Common, though not abundant. 
Not known to breed, though resident all 
summer. 
Black throated blue warbler, Dendroica 
cerulescens. Our most common warbler. 
Breeds; nests usually in ground hemlock, 
not more than 4 feet from the ground. 
Nests in June. 
a tinge of pink, specked lightly with brown. 
Nashville warbler, Helminthophila ruf- 
capilla. Common; migrant; not known to 
breed in this county. 
Chestnut sided warbler, Dendroica pen- 
sylvanica. Abundant; breeds; nests in low 
bushes, beech or maple in June. Eggs 
usually 4, white specked with brown. 
Found a nest of fresh eggs June 28, ’oo. 
Blackburnian warbler, Dendroica black- 
burnie. Common near or in swamps. Not 
known to breed in the county. 
Morning warbler, Geothlypis philadelphia. 
Not very common. Have never found it 
nesting, 
Eggs usually 4, white with 
RECREATION. 
Nearly all of the above are victims of the 
cowbird. On May 28, ’99, I tound a nest 
of chestnut sided warbler, containing 2 of 
its own eggs and 2 of the cowbird’s. Nest 
was in a beech bush, 18 inches from the 
ground. On the same day I saw another 
warbler feeding a young cowbird which 
was nearly full size and could fly a short 
distance. 
W. H. Dunham, Kalkaska, Mich. 

THOSE SAPSUCKERS AGAIN. 
Allow me to write a few words more 
about the yellow breasted sapsucker. I 
have watched these birds many years and 
have seen hundreds in Nova Scotia, where 
they are numerous. As I remember, the 
yellow-breasted sapsucker comes North 
about June 15th. The young are born 
in July and feed on flies and, I think, ants. 
In July and August the birds stay mainly 
in low, swampy places and work on alder 
trees most of the time. I have seen trees 
with more than half the bark stripped off 
by these birds. About September Ist, or 
a little earlier, they come to the orchard, 
but never bore the trees before that time. 
I think that the sapsucker goes South 
about the middle of October. I have 
watched them many times sucking sap 
from holes they had bored, and know they 
have favorite trees. They like a tree 
that bears sweet apples, but prefer pear 
trees. They sample the whole orchard, 
and selecting their favorite tree return 
to it again and again. I wish Mr. Horn- 
aday would read up on these birds in the 
following books and let us hear from him 
again: ‘Key to North American Birds,” 
Eliot Coues; “Popular Handbook of Or- 
nithology of the United States and Can- 
ada;” “The Birds of the United States,” C. 
C. Abbot; and Webster’s International 
Dictionary. een 
E. Redden, Brookline, Mass. 

SAVE THE BIRDS. 
I have been reading the articles in 
RECREATION regarding the red _ squirrel 
and dissent from the conclusions of most 
of your correspondents. The red squirrel 
is accused of robbing birds’ nests. I ad- 
mit he does eat birds’ eggs, and some- 
times the young for variety. But nuts, 
fruit, seeds from pine cones and the larvae 
of insects (of which he is especially fond) 
form his principal diet. 
Still, if those who are so ready to con- 
demn and destroy him would spend a part 
of their time in discouraging the slaughter 
of birds for millinery purposes, they would 
be doing a much more valuable service for 
the birds. Itis estimated that 5,000,000 birds 
are annually murdered, to furnish trim- 

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