Found a robin’s nest with one young bird and 
2 eggs in it. Then I went home. 
This evening went out by the corn and watch¬ 
ed Chimney Swifts again. They sailed with the 
wings held straight, or held above the back or 
below the body like ^ • °f .J" l° st 
one of its wing feathers and I can tell it irom 
the rest. It has young down the chimney as it 
.goes down frequently. It only stays down,about 
a minute. The common note is chipper chipper 
chip chip chip. The last 3 are uttered with 
pauses between of some length. They talk a 
together as they fly around. Sometimes thier 
wings make a flapping sound, and more rarely they 
whistle. Once one started to go down the chimney 
it decided not to when its wings were so close 
that they touched the bricks. Host of them 
roosted in this chimney as twilight came on. 
They dropped down silenty one by one. 
July 18, 1899 - Tuesday. 
Went out to waTch the swifts this evening 
while it was quite hot. Only one swift was sail¬ 
ing round. They come out in the morning or 
evening unless it is quite hot. They were thick 
when the shadows were long. 
A robin lit on the topmost spray of a Norway 
spruce nearby. I noticed the white thumbmarks 2 
in number on the end of its tail. It sang like 
turty turty teur turty tur wheet wherur whete whil 
turT ~~0thers~nearby varied - : Twondered how it 
could stand on the foothold it had. 
Ju ly 19, 1899 - Wednesday . 
This afternoon I heard a bluejay give an 
alarm note like t ejeg . 
Ju ly 22, 1899 - Saturday . 
This morning I took a ride over in Terrytovm. 
S aw a song sparrow spring from the top of a willow 
and when about 50 feet up it began to sing while 
