Bartramia longi oauda . Heath, Massachusetts. 
4. 
mate moving anxiously about in the grass. The day before the 
nest was found empty, none of us visited it and when the loss 
was discovered the mother was by it. Mr. Thompson thinks that 
when she was approached she scurried her young into the near- 
by cover and that she has them on the hill-side. Of course 
we shall "watch out" for the growing young and in the mean- 
time my feelings about the ordering of the universe will be 
less disconsolate, xxxxxxxxxxxxx I shall you word when there 
is assurance of the young. 
Yours sincerely, 
June 24, 1902. 
Mary Ab by White. 
