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 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.