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The Northern Crested Flycatchers were very noisy 
this morning. They gave the single queep , the qui-qui-qui- 
qui-qui sometimes preceded and sometimes followed by one 
or two queeps and the rolling k~e-e_-(5--e_, kr-r-r-r, kr-r-r-r. 
The song of the Blackburnian Warbler is highly 
variable. That of the bird heard near Pulpit Rock this 
morning was normal in form but it wholly lacked the usual 
wiry quality being, indeed, rich and guttural in tone like 
the song of the . The bird, a brilliantly 
colored one, was feeding in the upper branches of a large 
white oak. 
In the woods between Pulpit Rock and the road to 
Bensen’s we started an^ Oven-bird from her nest under some 
pines in the top of a knoll. There were five eggs which 
looked as if they had been incubated several days. 
As we approached the farm-house, we heard Red¬ 
shouldered Hawks screaming loudly and presently saw four 
of them soaring majestically in circles at a great height 
above the earth, nearly over Lawrence’s house. For nearly 
a minute all four were together; then they separated, two 
drifting off to the eastward, the other two towards the 
west. As nearly as I could make out, there were two of 
each sex. 
Bluebirds have their first broods on wing and the 
males were singing again but neither so freely nor so 
fervently as they sing earlier in the spring. They are 
