. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . eians, which were flitting aboutamong the small cedar and spruce, nowand then bursting forth in a weakthough sweet, song. A pair of Audu-bons Warblers were nervously thread-ing their way up through a largespruce, but linally were given up forother avain attractions which seem tosucceed each other so rapidly in theforest. Suddenly there burst rpon myear a beautiful bell-like note but tenfeet away and recognizing the musicianas a Cassin s Vireo I knew that itshandsomely-woven little nest was in acertain small black oak sapling stand
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . eians, which were flitting aboutamong the small cedar and spruce, nowand then bursting forth in a weakthough sweet, song. A pair of Audu-bons Warblers were nervously thread-ing their way up through a largespruce, but linally were given up forother avain attractions which seem tosucceed each other so rapidly in theforest. Suddenly there burst rpon myear a beautiful bell-like note but tenfeet away and recognizing the musicianas a Cassin s Vireo I knew that itshandsomely-woven little nest was in acertain small black oak sapling stand-ing alone in the clearing, from whencefloated the song. A few steps andthere, hidden only by the light-coloredleaves, swung the nest with its unsus-pecting little owner rocking to and froin the morning breeze. She flitted offto a near-by bush and poured forth herfull, round song with no sign of alarm,and with that perfect contidenec withwhich soiTie birds are imbued. Thenest was at the end of a droopingbranch of the black oak and only seven. so THE From Photo by R. H. Vireo on Nest. ieet from the ground. The four eggswere advanced in incubation at thisdate, June 9th. This was the only nestI saw of this species during the morn-ings stroll. The nest was composed oflight grasses, shredded leaves, soft plantfibres and decorated externally withthe white outer silk of a cocoon foundon the trees. It was lined with finebrown rootlets and grasses of the samecolor. I vsras surprised at the decrease innumbers of Cassins Vireo in this local-ity since the summer of 1896. At thattime in travelling over the wooded hill-sides there was scarcely a time whenone could not hear the song of this Vir-«o close at hand in one of the numerousflmall black oaks, and nests were very numerous. This yearI missed the familiar s Hg of my littlefriend and only now uid then did I<3ome upon a pair diiriug my change was due uo doubt to the:fact that in 1
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