was made of leaves and lined with roots. It 
contained 4 blue eggs and two cowbird's eggs. 
Took the following description of a yellow¬ 
billed cuckoos bill yellow; line through eye 
black; underparts white. Its notes were fast at 
first and were slower at the end. They sounded 
like hitting stones together. Pound a nest on 
the top of a thornapple tree about lOfeet up. 
It was made of fine twigs and lined with leaves 
and fine rootlets. It contained 4 blue eggs. 
They were very dirty. Depth of nest 1-3/4 inches 
width 5-1/2 inches, height 3-l/2 inches, cir¬ 
cumference 14 inches. 
Pound the nest of a red-eyed vireo on a 
crotch at the end of a limb of a basswood. It 
was made of cobwebs, bark, leaves, hemp and 
cocoons and was lined with pine needles. It 
contained 3 eggs, white, spotted mostly at the 
large end with black. It also contained 2 cow- 
birds eggs. Took the following description of 
the old one. line through eye black; line above 
eye white; underparts whitish; upperparts olive 
green. Grown grey bordered with black; bend 
of wing white. 
Pound a least flycatcher on a maple sapling 
that leaned over so much the top branches were 
horizontal. It was saddled to one of these. I 
reached it by climbing a larger tree and bend¬ 
ing it down. It was made of leaves, grass and 
hair lined with feathers forming a compact cup. 
It contained 4 eggs, white v/ith a yellow tinge. 
I had gone only about 20 feet before the female 
went back on. Took the following description 
of another one. breast white; back olive brown; 
two white wing bars; it called chebic and was 
very restless. Heard, one give a note of alarm 
like whit whit. ' 
Pound a blackbilled cuckoo's nest in a goose 
erry bush about 3 feet from the ground. It was 
wade of twigs and was lined with a fuzzy weed 
ower cluster. It was flat. It contained 2 
eggs smaller than those of the yellow-bill. 
