June 13-18 74 Victoria views of them to my great surprize they stooped down & raising their hind part of their wings so that the secundaries touched over their backs the tips of the primaries trailing on the branch on each side of their feet stood facing me with raised wings exactly inverted that is the secundaries when the tip should be. I caught them easily though they were very savage clicking their bills & snoring through their nostrils. Proceeding onward in search of further adventures I found a nest of Dot. crizicorus on which the O sat so closely that I nearly trud on her it contained 5 eggs. While searching some thick bushes for nests in general an Victoria view the first I ever detected in Mass. struck up his familiar notes & sang for some time but I was unable to get close a sight at him. Finding no more nests except two D. Penns both empty I strove home arriving about 6P.M. I forgot to note that the nest of Othus contained only a few feathers of Melis. melodia & a partially devoured dar beetle. Under the tree I found only an pellet composed entirely of mouse hair & bones. The lining of the nest was quite felty & matted together with the uppias of the young.