Some Observations on a Pair of Brown Creepers {Certhia familiaris 

 americana). — On June 11, 1913, while walking through a strip of woods on 

 Cape Elizabeth, Maine, in company with Mr. A. li. Norton of Portland, 

 I found a pair of Brown Creepers among the dead trees along the banks of a 

 brook. Most of these were evergreen trees and a great many of them were 

 dead with pieces of the bark stiU attached. A careful search failed to 

 reveal any sign of the nest, which I felt sure must be somewhere in the 

 vicinity. 



On June 14, I returned to the same place and found the birds again. 

 I watched them and found that they were gathering something from the 

 trunks of the trees. I kept my eyes on one of the birds which had its bill 

 full of something, and saw it disappear off to my left. I changed my posi- 

 tion about twenty-five yards and within five minutes had the pleasure of 

 I seeing one of the birds disappear in a hole under a large piece of bark on a 

 fir stump. ialt a minute, < 



3:41 " " 



3:50 " " staid half a minute, 



3:51 " " 1 

 3:56 both birds in succession, j 

 3: 59 J one bird [ 

 4:08 " " ! 

 4:12 " " I 

 4:14 the other bird, both in sight, | 

 4: 17 one bird j 

 4:18 " " staid half a minute j 

 4:22 " " 



4: 27 " " staid half a minute, followed immediately by the other 

 bird, 



4: 36 one bird with what looked hke birch bark or moth wings of some 

 kind, 



4 : 38 one bird followed immediately by the other, 

 4 : 41 one bird with moth or flying insect of some kind. 

 On one trip I thought I saw one of the birds taking the excreta from the 

 ! nest to a tree about fifty paces away, but up to 4: 41 I beheved that the 

 j birds were building. After the visit at that time I was confident that they 

 I were feeding young and I went over to the nest to investigate. I enlarged 

 the entrance hole a trifle and looking in could see two young. I put one 

 of my fingers into the hole and could hear the young burds chmbing up 

 inside the bark. When I looked into the nest again it was apparently 

 empty. I then started to remove the piece of bark to which the nest was 

 attached and all except one of the young birds left the nest and flew away, 

 making flights of about twenty yards. 



As soon as the young birds began to leave the nest the parents became j 

 very excited and one of them, probably the female, aUghted on a tree ^ 



