thought that anything was alive. They gave no 
notes on the ground. 
They were afraid, a killdeer and would run 
out of its road. The killdeer kept them watch¬ 
ful with their calling and finally they rose 
up with a rolling alarm note like ker-r-r-r . 
Their flight was twisting and turning and shoot¬ 
ing up and down. They kept a slight seiriblance 
to a close flock. They lit down below Cook’s. 
There they lit in some grass by a pool. They 
looked some like meadowlarks. I got closer this 
time by crawling along in the cover of some wire 
rolls. They were feeding near some ducks. Then 
I went home. 
Saw a bluejay robbing an English sparrows’ 
nest. They were much agitated but did not offer 
to at lack it. 
Tonight Clarence i/ook showed me a robin’s 
nest in a Norway spruce in their yard. There was 
an English sparrow’s nest in construction about 
a foot below it. The robins paid no attention 
at all to the sparrows. 
lay 
May 1, 1900 ~ Tuesday. 
The male purple martin spends a good deal of 
his time on the church weather vane. YJien he 
sees the female coming he flys out to meet her, 
singing and calling all the time. He always 
lights on the house first. 
This morning Jim Draper showed me a meadow¬ 
larks nest. It had six eggs in it. It was set 
in a little hollow, and the top was a tuft of 
grass lying near level with the ground. It was 
about half roofed over. Thfe old lark ran along 
the ground a short distance and then took wing 
without giving a note. 
The nest contained 6n eggs arranged 3 in a 
line and pointing toward the entrance. Saw a 
pair of barn swallows buildirg their nest in 
Draper’s barn. One alone did the work. The 
