Oonncctic-Qt, June, 1893, 



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" The little Summer Warbler will gather the ; 

 soft yellow down from the feru stems of the 

 marsh for the walls of her delicate cradle, and 

 what singular dark brown rootlets the Catbird 

 always secures to line her nest. There are 

 none such around my place that I have ever 

 seen, and yet an old Ca^^-d that builds in my 

 shrubbery every year always secures the de- 

 sired quantity and smoothly fits each little root- 

 let in its place, and she does'nt take from the ; 

 old nest to line the new either, for 1 noticed to- , 

 day on the low branch of a spruce, where she I 

 reared her brood a year ago, and those little 

 fibrous roots appear just as fresh as before tli§yj| 

 formed the cradle bed of a whole family, ^qjgjir' 1 



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A rptbird spending the Winter in Connecticut.- On the morning 

 of Janfar"?4 mM was somewhat surprised to see a Catbird 



Z fnlis) at Old Lyme, New London County, Connecticu , while 

 S oi of the roads in the town and about one^m.^ rom 

 the sound shore. The temperatures on the mormng of the 13th was Irom 

 15° to 20° I watched him for about ten minutes as he jumped from bush 



"Arst^^'pel™ U a Belted Kingfisher ,C.ryU aUyon, in zero 

 wea her when the Connecticut river, ponds, coves, etc. were frozen from 

 fifteen to twenty-four inches thick and no chance for good fishmg. A 

 singte Kingfisher spent the winter at Hadlyme two years ago, 1910.- 

 Arthur W. Brockway, Hadlyme, Conn. 



Hadlyme, Vonn. 



