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simple [eur??]. It contained two eggs. They were whitish spotted thickly with grey and had large predominant spots of very dark chocolate. They were about as large as a Song Sparrows egg.
Found a number of Catbirds nests with both young and eggs in them.
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June 30, Sunday.

This afternoon I went over to the Hemlocks. It was quite warm. Bird life was abundant but was kept in check by the heat. An occassional Ovenbird burst into a sudden

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outburst of song and as quickly relapsed into silence.

I went over and laid under the cool hemlocks on the east Bluff above the river. My attention was soon attracted to by the cries of a young bird to a Black-throated Green Warbler feeding its young in the top of a Hemlock a number of feet above me. I climbed up there but the young two in number were just able to fly enough so that I could not capture them and pursuit was rendered difficult by the smallness of the limbs on which I rested. So I was fain to be content with watching the old one