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Concord, Mass.
1898
June 5
(No 2)
quite up to their normal numbers but there
are apparently fewer Oven-birds than usual.
  We found a number of nests one of the Black & 
white Creeper with four slightly incubated eggs, two
of the Chestnut-sided Warbler, two Red-eyed Vireos'
building and a Blue Jay's on which the bird was
sitting but which we did not examine closely.
  The Field Sparrows nest found May 18th in Mrs. Barrett's 
pasture had three young almost fully grown and
feathered to-day.
  The Creeper's nest was on a hillside, within a few
feet of a path, under the spreading branches of a 
solitary pine deeply sunk in the ground among the
stems of some low blueberry bushes. It was about 
two yards from the trunk of the pine. The female
came running out of the bushes as we brushed past
and tumbled about, as if badly wounded, in the 
middle of the path. The pine stands in an opening
with no other tree very near it.
  One of the Chestnut sided Warblers' nests - the
one with the four eggs - was prettily placed in 
a green briar vine - a very unusual situation. 
It was wholly unconcealed by the foliage for it
was supported by two stems of the vine which
were bare of leaves for some distance above & below
the nest.
  Both Red-eyes' nests were in white pines.