1894.
July 2
Return to Cambridge from Warren, N.H.
  Clear and the hottest day of the summer so far.
  Immediately after breakfast Faxon and I took one
last walk through the beautiful park-like woods between
the Moosilauke House and the river. We had barely more
than an hour but we went over most of the ground
in this time. The Bay-breasted Warbler with the Red-start-
like voice was singing in his favorite cluster of spruces.
A little beyond we stopped to look at a nest which
we found on the morning of the 27th (June). It was
empty then and although evidently a new nest I had little hope
that it would ever be laid in but this morning we saw
a tail projecting over the rim and on driving off the bird
it proved to be a Black-throated Green Warbler. The nest
was built directly over the path on the horizontal branch
of a spruce about ten feet from the main stem and [delete]as[/delete]
nearly the same distance above the ground. From [delete]the[/delete] beneath
[delete]ground[/delete] this nest was very conspicuous (it was composed
of light grayish materials with some birch bark) but some
clusters of spruce needles pressed down close around and
over it effectually concealing it from above. It could
not have been taken without sawing off the branch and as
we had no time for this we left it unmolested.
[margin]Nest of
D. virens[/margin]
  On the way down to Warren we added a bird to
our list - the Field Sparrow, a male singing in a pasture
growing up to young white pines.
  The car ride to Boston (we left Warren at 11.30 A.M. &
arrived at Boston at 5 P.M.) was exceedingly hot & trying.
We saw two pairs of Carolina Doves, one near Nashua, the
other between Nashua & Manchester.
[margin]Zenaidura
macroura[/margin]