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.
Catbird: Syringa 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.
Chat: Barberry bush.
Redstart: Spruces.
Tanager: Swamp oak.
Barn Stallow: Hay loft.
Purple Martin: Bird-house.
Red-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.
Vesper Sparrow: Smoke-bush.
Grasshopper Sparrot: Under small spruce.
Song Sparrote: In many places, - hedge, bushes, ground.
Chipping Sparrow: High in evergreens, also in shrubs.
Field Sparrow: Meadow-sweet bush.
Tothee: On ground under a wild grape tangle.
Orchard Oriole: Old apple tree.
Baltimore Oriole: Elms on lawn.
Crote: Top of spruce.
Kingbird: In pear tree.
Plabe: On beams in shed, also on bracket supporting the porch.
Chimney Swift: In brick-chimney.
Hummingbird: Cedars, elm, beech, and high in a spruce.
Yellow-billed Cuckoo: Wild tangle of vines, etc.
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