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(House Wren) if so probably represented an isolated case of such depredation
for no other similarly damaged eggs were found and the Wrens flitted hither and
thither about the place without exciting any of the alarm and resentment which they
so constantly aroused among Robins, Chippies & other familiar nesting birds wherever they
went a year ago.

16. Black and White Creeper. First noted April 30 [April 30, 1916]. No subsequent evidence of 
any considerable north bound migration. Usual number of breeding birds
distributed in widely-scattered pairs throughout woodland of every character
bordering on our farming lands. On the evening of June 17 [June 17, 1916] I saw a male rise
above the tree tops and sing on wing - a rare happening. His song flight was performed 
much like that of a Nashville Warbler and his flight song differed
from that heard on ordinary occasions only by the addition of a few short
preliminary notes not essentially very unlike the rest.

17. Nashville Warbler. Arrived May 3 [May 3, 1916]. Most numerously represented May 7-20
when as many as five or six birds, probably north-bound migrants mostly, might
be seen daily, sometimes in blooming apple trees oftener along wood edge and in
swampy covers. On May 28 [May 28, 1916] I flushed a [female] from her nest containing 5 typically marked,
fresh-looking eggs. It was composed almost, if not quite, wholly of fine dry grasses
which lined a shallow hollow in the face of an almost vertical bank upwards
of a foot in height and fronting on a now disused wood road - the old Bigelow Road -
where it leads through scant growth of white pines and grey birches clotting dry,
arid soil. As I was walking quietly along it the bird fluttered out along the
ground, almost underfoot, and quickly disappeared amid the shrubbery where
she afterwards kept out of sight. Two [males] of her species were singing not far off.
At least two and think three might be heard in our farm woods any day
early in June and one sang freely and vigorously in Birch Field up to the
very close of that month. There was doubtless a nest there and another
in or near our Berry Pasture although I failed to locate either of them