Pushes, when startled it flew from one cover to 
smother without alighting in sight for an instant. I 
Once or twice when it came out of its own accord 
^ lit in a small tree for an instant before going 
to the next feeding ground. Frequently I saw it 
hanging head down from a twig getting insects from | 
^ong the leaves which had caught among the stems 
°f the hushes. Then it hunted around on the ground. 
was quite restless. It allowed me to approach : 
Tuite close so long as I u'as quiet hut it was 
difficult to keep track of it as the leaves were 
out on the hushes. Once or twice it slipped away 
without my seeing it and at last 1 lost it entire- 1 
ly. 
May 5, 1905 - Tuesday. 
Tonight after school -l went up in. the crow 
^oods across from the graveyard and stopped on 
j'h® way at the gravel pit. Near Hoags 1 heard a 
'*hin rapid nasal e ck-a eck-a eck-a eck-a and saw 
h red-breasted nuthatch running around on the top 
limbs of tree and scolding like S. carolinensis. 
Mother was hunting silently through another tree 
not f ar 0 ff. waS silent but active. It 
twisted and zigzagged over and under the branches 
Probing the bark in the usual nuthatch manner. 
■think that the one seen March 15 was a straggler j 
^d that the true migration is taking place now. 
Baltimore Orioles are very common now. I 
at nearly any time hear a musical callnote 
,v^ e _ftlck ~eater. Occasionally one sings wheety 
^gur whee wheur wheur _or wheety wheuru wlieuru 
whoit. They hunt through the half opened 
°liage and keep rather high up. 1 hear them 
°ftener than I see them. 
By the gravel pit I startled a very handsome 
^•rbler vi'hich I did not recognize at first but 
inally made it out to be a magnolia warbler, 
took the following description. Broad-wdiite patch | : 
wing and much white on tail; underparts yellow 
^, realce d with black forming a necklace on breast; 
eeks black bordered by white; rump yellow; crown 
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