The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 1932, Vol. 46 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 1932, Vol. 46June - On the '3rd, I went to St. Francois de Sales, in another attempt to locate the nest of the Water Thrush, but all to no purpose, as already indicated. A Bluebird's nest containing six eggs which I' had previously found had, in the mean time, been robbed of its contents but in lieu of pictures of the parents feeding their young, tch I had hoped for, I obtained some nice ones of a group of Showy Orchids and Yellow Lady's Slippers which were growing nearby. June 4th will ever remain memorable, as on that day I again visited the large statlon for the little Ram's Head Lady's Slipper, discovered on May 26th near Chambly, when no less than forty-seven out of about seventy plants were in full bloom. They were growing under pine and spruce trees, prin cipally the former, being associated for the most part with such plants as Wild Sarsaparilla, Prince's Pine and Bracken. Never before had I seen such a large colony, and it is a pleasure to know that this rare and curious little orchid is farily well distributed round the district, my youngest daughter having found anew station for it near St. Hilaire, just about this same time. On June 7th I visited a little swamp near Verdun in company with Mr. Smith, who showed me three most interesting nests of the Red-winged. Blackbird all built this year, being consecutive ones of the same pair of birds, ' and all having contained immaculate eggs. Amongst other things, that this interesting but fore-doomed swamp (owing to drainage and building schemes) contained, were a nest and set of four eggs of the Rose - breasted Grosbeak upon which the male was sitting as well as a nest and set of eggs of the Virginia Rail near which also a Wilson's Snipe was drumming but no amount of searching-re vealed its nest. Unfortunately, the 'locality is overrun with boys and few things have a chance of maturing. The day following I again visited the locality spending five hours at the nest of the Virginia Rail and learning something of the home life of these birds which I have described in a.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.