
          588.

my attention, also the Indigo bird a rather small bird, dark blue
with outer edge of the wings much darker, almost black.  The work
on the tunnel at Union Dam is progressing but very very slowly.[note at top of page: On my way out I stopped to examine the excresences on the witchhazel.  The tent-like ones on the leaves have already been alluded to, but to-day I noticed also the very irregular warty one on the flower buds.  They were quite large, as large as the newly ripe fruit, perhaps 10 times the size of those on the leaf.  They were filled with aphids, some of which were winged. Their sugary secretion which was pushed out from a hole near the base of the excresence, attracted many ants. Can this be of any economic use to the witchhazel?]

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August 5, 1901.  To Riverview.  I examined the little march-wren's nest,
which on my last visit  (7.20.1901) had 4 eggs in it.  To-day it was crowded with little
birdlets.  I could not conveniently tell how many these were, so made no effort
to find out.  The little things kept very quiet when I put my finger into their
nest, and but for the warmth would have thought that they were dead.
Two other nests were near by.  These were not seen when I was there
last.  I think they must have been built since for I hardly think that
I could have missed them.  Both were empty, however.
Spartina polystachya is now in full bloom.  The Marsh Mallow
is now beginning to bloom.

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August 8, 1901.  To Brooklyn.  Took the same route usually taken, only
did not descend to the swamp near the river. On my way out I stopped
to examine the paper mulberry to see if other differences might be observed
between it and the white mulberry [v. 7.18.'01.], and was surprised that I had not noticed
that the leaves of the paper-mulberry are nearly always opposite whereas those of the
white mulbury are alternate; still paper mulberry occasionally puts forth branches
with alternate leaves only; I observed that the leaves on such branches are 
two-ranked
        