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was .'I s^'ood two hours before they ventured to enter tlic nest. 
'] lie flies and ants were by no means so backward ! 
It only remains to add that, from such a t^alaxy of song- 
sters as has been mentitMied, the chorus of melody was at times 
wonderful. The chief perfc^riners were the Blackbird, Thrush. 
Chailinch, Hedi,''e-sparrow, Robin, Wren, VVhitethroat, Wood 
Warbler, Willow Warbler, and Tree Pipit, backed by the ever- 
present, monotonous, and somewhat irritating' note of the 
Cuckoo. 
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Further Notes of the Season. 
By H. E. Bright. 
As supplementary to the notes wliich appeared in the 
May issue of Bird Notes, pa.ges 141-4, the following results 
and episodes may prove of interest. 
Blue Robins (Siolia sialis): I reported young birds 
being fed in the nest. Four duly left the nest, three of whom 
are flying about quite strongly ; the fourth met with rather a 
strange accident — I found it tied round and round with some 
long grass in a most extraordinary manner and dead. It was 
fully fledged and quite as well feathered and developed as the 
other three. The grass was wound, as if tied, round its legs, 
body and neck. 
Ground Grosbeaks : The nesting of this pair proved 
a failure. There were three eggs, tw'o of which were infertile, 
and 1 took them both away. The other egg hatched out and 
should be about due to leave the nest. A little later it strangely 
disappeared, and I suspect the Virginian Cardinals of being the 
authors of its disappearance. 
Blue Grosbeaks (Guiraca cyanca) : These have three 
small fledglings in the nest. 
Virginian Cardinals (Cardinalis cardinalis) : After 
failing with their first nest one of my pairs of this species have 
been feeding young in the nest for more than a week. Later : A 
young bird is going about among the bushes, since when the 
parent birds have become quite savage. 
