This evening I watched a robin at work on 
the nest. She had begun in the morning in a 
little elm near the walk. She tried to get a 
string that was fast in a tree. She would take 
hold of it and jerk and then try to fly away 
with it. She made the foundation of twigs, paper 
grass, string and cloth. A male Baltimore 
Oriole came while she was gone and stole a string. 
May 28, 1899 - Sunday. 
This evening the robin was carrying grass to 
the nest. Once she visited an old English sparrow’s 
nest in the road and took a few straws from it. 
She mixed mud and grass and and moulded it with 
her breast. When she left the nest she sometimes 
uttered a rapid pimp pimp faster at the end like 
She took some clear mud. She dug it 
with a shovel-like motion. She entered the nest 
from any side. When the mud was moulded she put 
in the lining of fine grass. Some v/as moulded 
in and the rest was loose. Her breast was muddy. 
May 29, 1899 - Monday. 
This morning over at the school grounds I 
got several country names for birds. Glen 
Hackett called a red-winged blackbird a Black 
Jack, Harry Klumpp a Spotted spotted a 3and 
snipe, and Irving Prindle a ruffed grouse a wild 
banty. 
May 30, 1899 - Tuesday . 
This evening 1 was up by Draper’s. Heard a 
Vesper Sparrow sing on the ground. A chipping 
sparrow not to be outdone sang also. His song 
was like chippy chippy chippy chippy . Punning 
up the scale like^ 
