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Salem, N.Y.
1901
July 2—9

List of the Birds of Salem, N.Y. observed
by me during the week of July 2—9, 1901.

This is a very meagre list even for this
season as the intensely hot weather of the first
half of the week kept us always in or close to
the house. I took three drives in the latter
half of the week and on each occasion went
a little out of Salem into the edge of East
Greenwich, West Hebron, and West Rupert. The only
bird that I did not happen to observed actually within
the town limits of Salem was the Chewink in
East Greenwich. In the Audubon grounds of
two acres were always many birds. A piece of
suet fastened to the sugar maple opposite the
north windows of the library attracted constantly
the Downy Woodpeckers, White—breasted Nuthatchers
and Red Squirrels while in the long barberry
hedge separating the eastern end of the ground
from the rectory beyond nested Chipping
Sparrows, Catbirds & Yellow Warblers. I saw a
nest of the Chipping Sparrow in a small pine
close to the trunk and but five feet up well
hidden with three young and one egg. The
next day there were four young. The old birds
were quite tame. Baltimore Orioles, Robins
Bluebirds, Goldfinches, Purple Finches, Song Sparrows
Chipping Sparrows, Catbirds, Downy Woodpeckers, White-
breasted Nuthatchers, Yellow Warblers, Red—eyed &
Warbling Vireos, Flickers & Phoebes haunted the poles
for beans and the like, even the top of the