1902 
June 19 
• 
Raid made 
by a Crow 
on the 
small birds 
nesting 
near the 
cabin 
The 
Red-eye 1 s 
nest 
at the 
cabin 
torn down , 
probably 
by a Cat , 
At about 8,30 A. M, I was awakened by the clamorous 
cries of several small birds which we® evidently greatly 
excited about something. A grosbeak; was especially voci¬ 
ferous, keeping up a continuous shrill, almost shrieking out¬ 
cry. Gilbert, who was also aroused by the sound, arose and 
looking out of his east window saw a Crow fly from an oak 
just behind the stone wood-shed, bearing a good-sized, grayish- 
colored object in his bill. It was perhaps a young Grosbeak. 
On making a tour of inspection some two hours later, 
I found the Robin's nest in the pine in front of the wood¬ 
shed undisturbed^but the Red-eye’s nest had been torn forcibly 
from the fork which had supported it and, empty and almost 
shapeless, lay in the middle of the foot-path several yards 
from the tree. I could discover no traces of the young or 
unhatched egg which it held last night but a number of 
olivaceous-tipped feathers evidently from the back of the 
parent Vireo lay scattered about on the ground or clung to 
the lining of the nest. They were so soaked and matted with 
dew as to suggest that the deed of violence had been committed 
at some time during the night while the shreds of the nest 
which stall adhered to the pine branch were disposed in such 
a way as to lead me to think that the nest had been pulled 
down from beneath, probably by the cat whose tracks I found 
in the sandy path ne ar the cabin. The Blue Jay was sitting 
quietly on her nest at 7 A. M., nor did she join in the outcry 
at the earlier hour. 
