feeding, and singing occasionally. He had a habit, not ob¬ 
served last year, of flying down to the lowest live limb of 
a tall spruce, and, alighting close to the bole he would work 
along the limb, searching for food, to the extreme end. He 
would then hop up to the next limb and work back to the 
bole. This process was repeated step by step until he 
reached the thick branches near the top of the tree. 
This second occurrence of the Bay-breast on Monadnock 
at the same spot, during the nesting season, increases the 
presumption, already strong, that this species nests there. 
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