Chestnut-sided "Warblers’ nests ©n the roadside at the I arm 
had evidently suffered a like fate. 
The female Hummingbird was on her nest in the big 
elm and apparently sitting steadily (at 11 A M.)* I was 
is 
mistaken in stating that this nest was not on the same branch 
as the one last year. It is on a different fork of the same 
branch on about the same level and some six feet from the site 
of the former nest. The latter was in sit u when I left the 
Farm last autumn but it had disappeared when I returned this 
spring (in March). 
On putting my hand into the Phoebe’s nest in the 
stone horse-shed at Ball’s Hill this morning, I could feel 
young apparently several days old. The young in the nest 
under the eaves of the barn at the Farm are well-feathered 
and apparently nearly ready to fly. There were four stone- 
cold eggs in the nest in the new barn cellar and a fifth 
broken on the around beneath, while the birds were not seen7| 
We examined three Chickadees' nests to-day. From 
one in a rather neatly-drilled hole in a pitch pine stub 
in the woods at the Farm the bird flew when we rapped on 
the trunk. We could not see into this nest vvithout enlarging 
the entrance hole which entered the side of the stub about 
four feet above the ground and resembled that of a Downy 
Woodpecker, save that its edges were more ragged -- a charac¬ 
teristic, I believe, of holes made by the Chickadee. 
The other two nests were the ones near the cabin 
found by Bowditch and Nichols on the 12th. At that date the 
birds were laying, one nest containing at least five eggs 
