INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS.

My first tramping—ground was the garden, enclosing eight acres of varied land, flowers, brush, open, plenty of trees, deciduous and evergreen, and a. little pool of clear water. During the seasons of which I have the record forty species of birds have nested Within its borders, and oftentimes many pairs of the same species; for example, as last year, when the garden sheltered five pensile nests of the Red-eyed Vireo. These forty nests were located in the following manner:—

Robin: In vines, hedge, and trees. Wood Thrush: Spruces, bushes. .O'albird : Syringe. bushes, and other shrubs. Bluebird: Hole in old tree and bird-house. Wren: Little houses and in outbuildings. Yellow Warbler: Apple tree and elder bushes. Maryland Yellow-throat : Tall grass and bushes. C'hat: Barberry bush. Redstart: Spruces. Tanager : Swamp oak. Barn Swallow : Hay loft. Purple Martin : Bird-house. Bed-eyed Vireo: Sugar-maple, apple tree, and birches. White-eyed Vireo: Beech. English Sparrow : Everywhere, until banished. Purple Finch : Old quince—hedge. Goldfinch : Sugar-maples. er Sparrow: Smoke—bush. Grasshopper Sparrow : Under small spruce. Song Sparrow: In many places,—hedge, bushes, ground. Chipping Sparrow : High in evergreens, also in shrubs. Field Sparrow: Meadow-sweet bush. Towhee : 0n ground under a. wild grape tangle. Cowbird: Eggs found in the nests of a. dozen difierent birds, particu larly the Song Sparrow's. Orchard Oriole : Old apple tree, Baltimore Oriole : Elms on lawn. Crow : Top of spruce. Kingbird : In pear tree. Phcebe : 0n beams in shed, also on bracket supporting the porch. Chimney Sun'fl: In brick-chimney. Hummingbird: Cedars, elm, beech, and high in a. spruce. Yellow-billed Cuckoo: Wild tangle of vines, etc. 1 16