1893 
June 5 
(No 2)
Saybrook, Connecticut.                                                                                                       
  occasional shrubs of other kinds with a few flowering
dogwoods, the whole overrun in many places with
green briar. There was no poison ivy here but we saw
a little along the railroad embankment. The entire                                                                
ridge, with some flat ground at its base [delete]bushes[/delete] also
covered with thickets, was simply alive with Chats
whose songs came unceasingly from every side while
one or more birds were constantly in sight. I
found one of their nests - very conspicuously placed
in the fork of a tall, slim bay berry bush below the foliage
& on the edge of the thicket. The set comprised four
beautifully marked eggs which looked fresh but
which I did not take. The [female] skulked about
in the thickets keeping well concealed & uttering
a scolding skau. Most of the males on this
ridge interpolated in their songs a bright, soft
whistle closely similar to the call of the Upland Plover.
I heard this from two of the Fairfield Chats, also.
Besides Chats we heard on this ridge Cat-birds,
White eyed Vireos, Towhees, a Field Sparrow, a
Black-throated Green Warbler, & a Chickadee. Two
Quail were whistling on the busy flat below.
[margin]Yellow-breasted
Chats[/margin]
  In the early evening we drove out of town
to see J.N. Clark. He was absent but soon appeared
sans coat, waistcoat, collar etc, his white shirt
gleaning in the darkness. A rubber-cloth bag [delete]strapped[/delete]
slung from his shoulder contained, he told us, a 
nest & eggs of the Hooded Warbler & one of the
Maryland Yellow-throat, the results of his afternoon's
work in the woods. He is a fine-looking man of