Whitef ield, H.H 
Geothlypis triohas . 
1097. I paid another visit to the Yellowthroat 1 s nest this af- 
July- 36. ternoon. As I drew near, I saw the male "bird for the first 
time. He had an insect in his bill and was hopping about anx- 
iously. I found the three young still in the nest, but they 
looked about old enough to leave it. They seemed pretty well 
covered with feathers, and all had their eyes closed as if a- 
sleep.I touched one of them with my finger and it immediately 
opened its bill for the expected morsel of food. It got none 
but opened its eyes and saw me, when it shot out of the nest 
in a twinkle into the grass. I could not find it and so I 
left it for the parents to look after. The other two remained 
in the nest. 
July 27. My afternoon walk took me again to the Yellowthroat ' s 
nest. Approaching the spot I saw the old bird, the female, 
with an insect in her bill, flitting from bush to bush ner- 
vously. i looked into the nest and found that the young had 
gone. Two of the birds cannot be more than nine days old at 
one 
the very widest limit, while^cannot be more than eight days 
old. This supposes that two eggs hatched immediately after my 
visit on the 18th, and the third immediately after my visit on 
the 19th, and that the young did not leave the nest till j\ist 
before I visited it to-day, the 27th. I do not know whether 
the bird that flew from the nest on the 26th, returned again. 
