Savor a i s bho ebe . 
Concord, 
Mass . A young bird's clumsy attempts at nest-building, 
1898. 
At a sand bank on the edge of these (Lawrence's woods) 
May 1. 
we found a pair of Phoebes. The female was collecting build- 
ing material which she got on the ground and tried to place on 
a slender, vibrating root under the bank.- a futile task for 
the weak stems etc. fell to the ground almost as sAon as she 
left them and were added to a pile of similar material at the 
foot of the bank. This pile was as large as an average-sized 
Phoebe's nest. The bird ’was probably a young one that had 
never before attempted to build a nest. 
Peterborough, Hew Hampshire. 
1898. 
More numerous than I have ever seen them elsewhere in 
July 5 
to 
Aug .15. 
New England. In full song July 20th and 24th; singing feebly 
July 30th; full soxig repeated several times at sunrise on 
August 9th. 
Concord, 
Mass . 
1898. 
Drove to the Barrett farm in the forenoon. Saw a Phoebe 
Oct. 8. 
flitting about the old barn cellar in which, on the decaying 
beams, are literally dozens of old nests of this Flycatcher 
