Pulpit' Rock I found an interesting lot of freshly-arrived 
migrants, including a Redstart, a Black and Yellow Warbler 
(silent male), a Nashville Warbler (silent male), a Solitary 
Vireo, a Yellow-rump, three Usnea W rblers(males), a Black- 
throated Green Warbler(male), a 31ack-throated Blue Warbler, 
(male), and— most unexpected of all — a Great-crested 
flycatcher. The last named bird flew up from a pool in the 
swamp wheje he had evidently been bathing. After shaking the 
water from his drenched plumage, he called a few times. 
Unlike most of his kind, he was very tame, permitting me to 
approach within six or eight yards. I doubt if he was the 
bird that breeds in our orchard but he may have been. (He 
must have been the same, for he was in the same woods on the 
4th and in the orchard near the nest on the 5th). 
I found a Blue Jay’s nest on the south side of Ball’s 
Hill this morning. It was in an unusual situation near the 
end of a long, densely-foliaged, horizontal white pine branch 
about 20 feet above the ground. Both birds were flitting close 
about it and one of them spent a minute or more in it, 
slowly 
scarcely turning around and around apparently to smooth the 
lining. They were both silent. 
Heard two Ruby-crowned Kinglets singing and saw a 
third which uttered the dru, stuttering chatter. The song 
of this species may be characterized as brilliant yet ethical 
or spiritual, exceedingly rapid yet smooth and flowing. It 
is sometimes loud and ringing, sometimes rather low and 
subdued 
