14 THE AU DUB O:NS BUI eae 
Because of this digression it is not to be thought that the adventures 
of the day were at an end. We had forgotten lunch and now made a 
light repast. One small can of beans (discovered by Mr. Jung in the 
rumble seat of his car) was divided, one might say bean by bean, among 
three males with outdoor appetites. “Then on the way back to the lodge 
a Fish Hawk was seen, flying with a goodly fish in his talons in the direc- 
tion of some large nests which had been marked by the senior author in the 
fall of a previous year. “Thereupon we drove several miles and walked 
a few more to discover that one of the large nests was in fact the Osprey’s 
aerie. “Lhis bird, so common and familiar along the Atlantic seaboard, is 
not at all common in the interior and when found nesting there the site 
is usually in some remote district. 
When not upon some particular excursion, such as seeking to locate 
the nest of the Evening Grosbeak (we learned later that one was seen 
carrying twigs near the general store and we ourselves saw the birds in 
that neighborhood as late as June 10), or seeking the nest of a Yellow- 
bellied Sapsucker (whose favorite “drum” was a strip of galvanized iron 
on top of a windmill near the lodge), we could loaf about head- 
quarters and watch the Pileated Wocdpeckers. As already set forth, the 
nest was about 50 feet from our domicile. 
The birds were watched daily during the period of our stay. In the 
late afternoon one, ascertained to be the female, would look out of the 
hole and call. Soon the male would come, the other would emerge and 
the first would take her place. As fceding was not seen at any time it was 
assumed that the young did not hatch until after our departure, June 10. 
Once the male was seen at close quarters after a shower. He was drink- 
ing from a pool in a wood road. Presently he flew to a dead stump and 
with a vigorous side to side motion of the bill, attacked the mound of 
rotted wood at its base. After each such onslaught he was seen to feed in 
a deliberate, dainty manner. When he had flown an examination of the 
heap showed it to be swarming with black ants. There were only one 
or two eggs to be seen. From the feeding action noted and the presence 
after the “gorge” of so many ants, it was deduced that not the insects but 
their eggs had made up the woodpecker’s dinner. 
Much time was devoted to the warblers of which fifteen or sixteen 
make their summer home in this region. In the evergreens the common- 
est was the Blackburnian. On the brushy areas of the burned-over land 
it was the Chestnut-sided. At a point on the wood road, leading into the 
lodge, there was a group of spruces and balsams where a male Magnolia 
took his position and sang regularly for several days. An exhaustive but 
unsuccessful search for sign of a female or of a nest was conducted on three 
occasions. Finally the male abandoned the “‘territory’—that is to say, he 
was neither seen nor heard there afterward. 
