374 NESTS AND EGGS OF 



the ground. Mr. R. B. Mclaughlin found, on June 4, a nest of this 

 species built close to the main body of a small pine tree, in woods near 

 Statesville, North Carolina. The nest rested on a short, dead twig, 

 nineteen feet from the ground. It contained three young birds and 

 one egg. 



The eggs are three or four in number, rarely five. They are of a 

 dull greenish or grayish-white, spotted with various shades of brown 

 and lavender-gray almost entirely near the larger ends ; in some spec- 

 imens they form wreaths about the crown. This bird deposits its eggs 

 early, usually in the first part of April. Mr. Norris has two sets taken 

 by Mr. Wayne, April 1 1 and 14, and consisting of three and four eggs, 

 respectively. They measure .65X.5I, .66x49, . 60x49; .7ix.53, .71 x 



53> -69 x -53> -69*. 53. 



I can find no authentic account of the nests and eggs of the White- 

 browed Yellow-throated Warbler, or Sycamore Warbler, D. d. albilora, 

 inhabiting the Mississippi Valley and north to the Great Lakes. 



665. Dendroica nigrescens (TOWNS.) [105.] 



Black-throated Gray Warbler. 



Hab. Western United States, north to Colorado and Oregon, etc.; south in winter into Mexico, etc. 



Mr. A. W. Anthony gives this species as a summer resident of 

 Washington county, Oregon, where it frequents the thick firs. In the 

 breeding season it is quite shy and retired, inhabiting the younger 

 growth of firs and dense thickets of alder and willows. 



The eggs are four in number. The extensive cabinet of Mr. J. 

 Parker Norris contains a set of four eggs of this Warbler, which was 

 taken in Polk county, Oregon. The nest was situated in a fir tree 

 twenty feet from the ground, and is composed of fine grasses, profusely 

 lined with feathers. The eggs are pinkish-white, spotted with cinna- 

 mon-rufous and lilac-gray. The markings are nearly all at the larger 

 ends. They measure .67 x .51, .71 x .54, .71 x .54, .68 x .53. 



666. Dendroica chrysoparia SCL. & SALV. [106.] 



Golden-cheeked "Warbler. 



Hab. Central Texas and southward to Guatemala. 



So far as I am aware all the nests and eggs of this rare Warbler 

 that are in various cabinets have been collected in Comal county, 

 Texas. Mr. Wm. Brewster describes specimens of its nests and eggs 

 taken by Mr. W. H. Werner in that region in the month of May, 1878.* 

 The birds were found invariably in cedar timber. Four nests were 

 discovered, all of which were similar in construction, being built in 

 the forks of perpendicular limbs of the Jimiperus virginiana, from ten 



* Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, IV, pp. 77-79. 



