other "birds in its song. 
Went across the fields to H. Hacketts. Saw 
a red-winged blackbird. Glenn Hackett called it 
a black jack. It was black. The shoulders were 
red bordered by light orange. Its alarm not'^ 
was chuck chut ♦ The song was like h 'wa ker ee . 
Then I went home. 
June 11, 1898 - Saturda y. 
This afternoon noon I found a Tobin’s nest 
in a maple west of the house. English sparrows 
had built right over it. Went up by Carpenter's 
and found another like it in a box elder. There 
were two robin's eggs in it. They were in the 
sparrow’s nest. 
June 24, 1896 - Friday . 
Went down in the fields after school. Saw a 
Male bobolink. It flew while singing. It kept 
walking around on the top of a post uneasily and 
giving the alarm note. 
Went on down to the river. On a dead willow 
about 5 feet above the water was a kingbird's 
nest. The willow had fallen on the crotch of a 
bush and hung over the water. The nest was made 
of small weeds, roots, strings and fibers and was 
lined v/ith small brownish roots. It contained one 
young bird covered with down and one white egg 
spotted with chocolate. 
Then I went home. 
JULY 
July 31, 1898 - Sunday . 
This afternoon I went over across the river. 
Saw an American goldfinch on a thistle. The back 
and breast were yellow; belly and rump white. Tail 
and crown black; middle tail feathers white; bill 
rosy white. Its note was per-chic o ree. 
Under the bridge was a flock of cliff swallows 
Mostly young. Sometimes an old one would push a 
