Notes
October Sixteenth
Besides the large pendent nest of the Baltimore and the orchard orioles, skilfully suspended from the end of an elm, maple, apple, or pear tree limb, you will find many smaller hanging nests built by the several species of vireos. They are about the size of a tennis-ball; made of birch bark, paper, and pieces of dried leaves, fastened with spider and caterpillar webs, and they are lined with dried pine needles or dried grass.
October Seventeenth
The American goldfinch, "thistlebird" or "wild canary," usually places its nest in the angle of three twigs at the end of a slender branch that is nearly or quite perpendicular. The nest is larger than a base-ball, deeply hollowed and composed outwardly of pieces of cotton waste, plant fibres and fine bark, with a thick lining of willow or dandelion down, and other soft material.
October Eighteenth
The chebec (least flycatcher), wood pewee, and blue-gray gnat-catcher saddle their nests on the upper side of limbs, as the hummingbird does, and they use the same variety of material. They are so delicate in construction that a severe storm will send them to the ground.