that of a redstart. 
Looked in the catbird’s nest. There were 5 
eggs in it. 
The cliff swallows were getting mud. Saw a 
male barn swallow on a wire. It appeared to be 
P sick. 1 followed it for some distance. It could 
hardly fly. Then I went home. 
May 2 6, 1900 - Saturday. 
¥ent over tob.Hacketts this morning. Heard 
several wood thrushes. They were very wild and 
noisy. 
Heard a yellow-billed cuckoo singing. Found 
a catbirds nest about 12 feet from the ground. 
Heard several cedar waxwing's. Then I went home. 
Jim Seeley and I went over to the hemlock 
bluffs. In a field this side of the river we saw 
a male bobolink. He lit on some grass stems. 
There were quise a number of cowbirds around 
the horses. They were nearly all males. 
V/hile crossing the river we could hear wood 
k thrushes calling. In the woods a blackbilled 
'c cuckoo flew up and sat on a limb for an instant. 
It had an olive brown back. An immense red-tailed 
hawk circled around screaming. Soon his mate joined 
him. The tail was very noticeable against the sun. 
It was kept spread. I climbed about 80 feet in a 
big pine to look at a nest. It was an old one. 
I heard many bird songs but they all kept out of 
sight. One was a loud zeeeeeeeeeet. 
Heard the song on the yellow throated vireo fre¬ 
quently. It was like that of the red-eye. 
There were numbers of scarlet tanagers here. 
The males like to get on dead branches and look 
around. 
Then we went home. 
Tonight a robin lit on the martin house and 
began to call. A female v/ent up and the robin 
its ran at it. The robin stayed for some time. 
May 27, 1500 - Sunday 
