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then as she flushed off, making a rustling noise among the dry 

 leaves on the ground, I fully identified her as a female of this 

 species. To my disappointment this nest contained only two of 

 the bird's own eggs, and one of a cowbird, but as incubation had 

 evidently begun, I removed this nest and its contents, and these 

 have since been in my cabinet. The eggs are of a clear white 

 hue, irregularly dotted on the surface especially on the larger 

 end with light reddish-brown spots, and average in size, 68x48 

 of an inch. 



In later years some rather surprising circumstances in regard 

 to the nodification of this species have come. under my observations, 

 for a number of seasons previous to the summer of 1895 ^ ^'^^^ 

 noted some pairs of these birds to be summer residents in a tract 

 of hard-wood timbered land on the northern part of Wildwood, 

 and almost daily it I happened to be in these woods from the 

 middle of May to the end of June, I was sure to hear their song 

 notes, or see some of the birds themselves : and on several 

 oocasions : after the leaves had fallen, I saw some of their nests 

 of the past season, but for a few years I failed to see any, either 

 in the nesting period, or after the leaves had departed from the 

 underwood ; so I came to the conclusion that the species had 

 ceased to nest here, or nested higher off the ground, among the 

 boughs of the hemlocks, a species of evergreen, with which this 

 woodland was intermingled, and this opinion was confirmed by 

 the finding of several nests that had been blown from their 

 summer sites by the violence of the autumn winds. But the 

 finding of a nest placed in the branches of a fallen hemlock, and 

 another in a small brush-pile, gave me to understand that the 

 species choose other nesting sites than either low bushes, or the 

 more elevated boughs of the spreading hemlock, and in con- 

 firmation of this conjecture, I was still more surprised by the 

 following cases : In the latter end of May, (895, I became pretty 

 sure that a pair of these warblers had a nesting site in a small 

 patch of low, thick underwood, in the woodland, above referred 

 to, but for this I searched several times in vain, so as the weather 

 was damp and cold, thought that though the nesting site had 

 been selected, that the nest was not made : but every time I 

 visited that place the birds were not there. At last, after the 



