. The oist . grescens, which were flitting about,among 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 finally were given up forother avain attractions which seem tosucceed each other so rapidly in theforest. Suddenly there burst upon myear a beautiful bell-like note but teafeet away and recognizing the musicianas a Cassins Vireo I knew that itshandsomely-woven little nest was in acertain small black oak sapling stand-ing alone in the clearing, from whencefloated t
. The oist . grescens, which were flitting about,among 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 finally were given up forother avain attractions which seem tosucceed each other so rapidly in theforest. Suddenly there burst upon myear a beautiful bell-like note but teafeet away and recognizing the musicianas a Cassins 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 confldeuce withwhich some birds are imbued. Thenest was at the end of a droopingbranch of the black oak and only seven. w 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 was 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-eo close at hand in one of the numeroussmall black oaks, and nests containingyoung were very numerous. This yearI missed the familiar s ng of my littlefriend and only now md then did Icome upon a pair diuiijg my change was due no doubt to thefact that in 1896 a collection of skinswas made by several collectors in this
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