it joined its mate in the brush and I saw that 
it was a lark sparrow the first that I had ever 
seen. It looked much like a white-throated 
sparrow on its back. There was a black spot on 
its breast. The head was marked peculiarly with 
white . It was rather wild and was soon high in 
the trees again. 
Heard a Maryland yellow-throat give a song 
like wut wut rit it che repeated twice. There 
were red-winged blackbirds in the fields. The 
ttales were mating and chased the females all 
the time. The latter gave a note like kra kra 
kra. - 
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Heard a warbling vireo give a note like chut 
£k]at. Saw SQ veral yellow-throated vireos. They 
were quite tame. 
'went over to the hemlocks. Found a Coopers 
Hawk's nest in a large maple about 50 or sixty 
f eet up. It was made of sticks with a loose rim 
around it and contained 3 pale-blue eggs. The 
female stayed on the nest until I was half way up. 
ft took 25 minutes to get up and down. 
Then we went over the rocks. Saw a single 
hooded warbler for an instant. 
Overbirds were very thick and we saw several 
erula Warblers. It was threatening rain all 
th A hout noon \e took our things up to 
he little cave. I was stooping to get under 
a ^fttle bush that stood by the foot of a tree 
when a female partridge flew from her nest right 
hhder my feet. Her wing hit me in the neck and 
s he nearly ran into Art. The nest was as large 
as a plate and was at the foot of a tree. It 
* as roade of leaves and contained 13 buffy white 
°r ochraceous buff eggs. The female was laying 
I took one. 
After dinner we ’..ent south along hemlock 
re ek. There was a narrow valley here. V«e 
^allowed it to its end. At one place there were 
lot of berry bushes and I heard chewinks and 
e ld sparrows. Prairie horned larks and vesoer 
Parrows were common and we saw a few bluebirds, 
ihen we went home. 
