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pretty as well as unusual sight to see so many different kinds 
of Warblers collected together in practically one spot. 
Indeed, on several occasions nearly all the eighteen species 
observed were within sight or hearing at once»J 
I spent the entire day in the woods. While marking 
out a path behind the wood-shed in the forenoon, I blazed 
a young pine which I wished to have cut down, striking it 
twice with a hatchet and with some force. A few moments 
later I happened to look at its top and there, to my surprise 
was a Blue Jay's nest with the tail of the sitting bird 
projecting over the rim. When I moved off a little distance 
I could see her head which was held with the bill pointing 
upward at an angle of about 45°. I cut down several small 
oaks close about the pine and afterwards Mr. Purdie and I 
lunched at its base without disturbing the bird, although 
the nest was not more than eight or nine feet above the 
ground. This nest, like the one found at David's Hill 
the other day, was in a comparatively open situation, the 
pine in each case being surrounded by leafless trees. 
In the late afternoon I visited Holden's Hill. The 
tall oaks and chestnuts which cover this sandy ridge were 
swarming with Warblers,[jnost od which appeared to be Yellow- 
rumps, Chestnut-sides, Black and White Creepers and Red¬ 
starts with a goodly sprinkling of Uanea and Nashville 
Warbler sTj 
