1900 
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Part rid. e* s 
nest 
with 
jLjrm.A. 
Alder 
Flycatcher 
Off with the camera directly after "breakfast. First 
visited and photographed a Partridge’s nest containing 9 eggs. 
It is on the western edge of the swamp "behind Ball’s Hill at 
the foot of a steep slope covered with rather tall oaks. 
The nest is composed of and lined with oak leaves. It is 
very deeply hollowed and is placed at the foot of a sapling, 
near the stem of a large oak. A few leafy maple twigs hung 
over and partly covered it. I was struck by the close 
resemblance between the color of the eggs and that of the 
bleached oak leaves in and about the nest. The bird was 
absent at 8 A. II. , but when I visited the nest at 1 P. M. 
she was sitting. She allowed rne to approach within about 
5 feet and then, taking three or four quick steps, rose and 
flew out of sight. Gilbert found this nest Hay 11th when 
it contained its full complement of 9 eggs. The eggs were not 
covered when I made my first visit this morning although 
the bird must have been away, getting her breakfast. 
I was in the Ball’s and Davis’s Hill woods practically 
the whole forenoon. At least one half of the northern 
migrants which were here yesterday had departed this morning. 
I saw a Traill’s Flyc tcher which was calling pip at the 
east end of Ball’s Hill and heard another giving the song 
(que-witchy ) at short intervals and with great vigor in the 
thickets which border the meadow at the south end of D a vis's 
Kill. 
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