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st-Lo ■HaMsC&Ci, M>C- 
1. Sayornis phcebe. Pewee. One lfest early 
in April contained two eggs of the Cowbird 
and three of the Pewee. Another found in 
Hay contained damaged eggs of the owner and 
two sound Cowbird’ s eggs. This nest had been 
deserted some time. 
Q'&O. XIV, Sept. 1889 
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Phoebe Nesting in Bank Swallows’ 
Burrows. 
fart / 7 
On May 22 of the present year, as my ^5^ ftfZ. 
friend Mr. H. Dinsmore and myself were , /^y 
walking along the bank of the Piscstaquog ' ' 
river, we observed a Phoebe fly suddenly 
from under our feet. We investigated the 
matter and found an old deserted Bank 
Swallow colony, which I should judge, by 
the condition of the tunnels, to have been 
vacant for several years. In one of these 
holes about a foot from the entrance was 
the nest of the Phoebe, containing two 
young, just hatched, and two eggs. 
Arthur M. Farmer. 
Amoskeag, N.H. 
Two Broods Raised in the Same Nest 
by Pewee. 
On May 4tli I discovered a nest of the Pewee 
upon the top of one of the blinds of our. house, 
and upon investigating found it contained two 
eggs, later on it contained four. These were 
hatched, and in due time the young birds left 
the nest. On July 4tli I noticed the bird again 
on the nest and upon examining found one egg 
and a young bird just hatched. 
Is it usual for the Pewee to rear two broods 
in tbe same nest without repairing the same? 
S. JR. Ingersoll. 
Ballston Spa, N. Y. 
O.&o, 16. August, 1890. H 7. 
Birds Tioga To, N.Y. Aides Lcring, 
3t5. Phcebe. Common. Arrives in pairs 
or singly about the first of April ancl lives on 
bugs and insects. About the third week in 
April nest building commences. The nest is 
very compact and deeply hollowed, being 
placed under the eaves of a barn or house, in a 
shed, under bridges or culverts, etc. It is com- 
posed of moss and mud, being lined with 
horse hair, small, dried grass and other soft 
materials. The eggS'are usually four in num- 
ber, and are of a pure white color, some of 
them being ..spotted witli light brown, mostly 
at the larger end. The eggs commonly meas- 
ure 3-4 in. by 4-10 in. 
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ORNITHOLOGIST 
[Vol. 17-No. 5 
of the bed rooms the plaster was starting, 
ing, and on this slight shelf a beautiful mossy 
nest was fastened, and in which was the 
usual number (for that year) of five pure white 
eggs. 
These birds are equally at home in the do or 
yard, and in the solitude of the forest. On 
April 23, 1882, which was early, during a drive 
to entertain a friend, I took a stroll in a forest 
of old timber, and on the face of a cliff or 
steep rock under a slight projection, I found 
an entire new nest all built that year, the mud 
being still moist and the moss green. It was 
lined with a few horse-hairs as usual, and 
ready for the eggs. I could reach within 
eighteen inches of the nest, although it was a 
dangerous place. “It was so near, and yet so 
far,” and no known means at hand to reach it, 
when I dropped on my hands and knees and 
invited my companion to step on my back 
which he did, and examined the nest with 
perfect ease. This nest was in a wild, rocky 
scene, near Norwich, Conn. The rocks were 
nearly covered with masses of “hard ferns. ” 
I have described the above typical resting 
places, but I have found them in every con- 
ceivable position except on trees, shrubs, or on 
the ground. 
Wherever a giant of the forest has been 
uprooted, turning the roots upward, there a 
Phoebe’s nest will often be found; under 
bridges, on the beams, or on the walls or abut- 
ments, no matter if the bridge is little more 
than a culvert, on every conceivable kind of 
outbuilding, inside and outside, even under 
piazzas of buildings, where the occupants sit 
within a few feet of them. I found a case of 
this kind on the piazza of Alex. Temple at 
Broad Brook, Conn. I never saw a nest 
exposed to the rain from above. They are 
everywhere a favorite, and the farmer that 
will use his old revolutionary fire-arms on its 
relative, the ICing-bird, will protect the Plioobe 
bird, which lives entirely on insect life. 
Returning once more to tlie nesting habits of 
this bird, I would state that in 1882 I found a 
nest far up the culvert below the waste-gate 
of the Norwich, Conn., ivater works. During 
that same year “ J. M. W. ” of Norwich, found a 
nest in the hollow of an apple tree. He also 
reports finding six eggs on three different 
occasions, the latest being on July 10th. Our 
earliest record is May 14, 1819, a set of five; 
May 15, 1880, a set of five, from the bridge at 
the head of Snipsic Lake, that were spotted. 
Junius A. Brand, of Norwich, Conn., 
informed me that he once found a nest and set 
of eggs on the limb of an old white oak tree. 
The tree was about twenty inches in diameter, 
and tbe horizontal limb on which the nest was 
found was about eight inches in diameter. 
The limb projected about sixteen feet from the 
body of the tree and the nest was about 
twenty-five feet above the water. He also 
reports four nests at one time on the beams in a 
small old saw-mill with up and down saw. This 
is not at all unusual, as the birds become 
remarkably tame during the breeding 
season. 
Tbe Wood Pewee is a near relative of the 
Pliosbe bird, but it always builds in the woods 
and on a small horizontal limb, and lays three 
beautifully marked eggs. I have heard of five 
eggs being laid, but have no positive evidence 
of the fact. 
Jos. M. Wade. 
O.& O.Vol.l7,May 1892 p. 77-7& 
