Cambridge, Mass.
1899.
May
[margin]Birds
noted in our
garden by
W. Deane.[/margin]
  16. Icterus galbula. - 4: [male]*, 8: [male]* [female], 11: [male]*, 12: [male]*, 13: [male]*, 15: [male]*, 21: [male]*, 26: [male]*
  17. Corvus americanus. - 6: 1, 15: 1, 16: 1, 26: 1, (A nest, in which
a brood of young were reared, was built in a
pine over Dr. Wyman's driveway, Sparks Street)
  18. Cyanocitta cristata. - 15: 1 screaming in the garden.
  19. Chaetura pelagica. - 4: 2 [circled] flying over at 2 P.M., 11: small flock flying over.
  20. Trochilus colubris. - 16: 1
  21. Empidonax minimus. - 15: 1, 28: 2 (Did not nest in the
garden this year).
  22. Dryobates pubescens. - 9: [male], 11: [male] eating suet.
  23.  Colaptes auratus. - A pair nested in a box, covered with
bark & otherwise made to resemble a stamp, which
I put up for the last month. The [male] "shouted" through
this month. He was frequently seen sitting in the
box looking out of the round hole at the top.
The Sparrows reportedly attempted to build in the
box but the Woodpeckers threw out their straws 
and finally laid 8 eggs at just what date we
do no know but probably sometime this
month. None of the eggs hatched & the
bird after incubating them through June
deserted the nest early in July.
[margin]Flickers nest
in box.[/margin]
  24. Passer domesticus. - Rather less numerous than usual.
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