THE OTTAWA NATURALIST 



Vol. XVIII. OTTAWA, NOVEMBER, 1904. No. 8 



SUMMER WARBLERS IN COMPTON COUNTY, QUEBEC- 

 By Lewis M. Terrill, Montreal, P.Q. 



The district in which the following- observations were made 

 comprises an area of about five miles in the vicinity of Bury, 

 Quebec, a village in Compton County on the C.P. R. almost equi- 

 distant from Sherbrooke and Meg-antic. 



Lumbering has only recently become extensive and the forests 

 are still large, with coniferous trees predviminant. The country 

 is hilly and well watered, forming an ideal summer home for many 

 warblers and other birds of a retiring disposition. 



Black-throated Green Warbler. — My notes on this species 

 are based on three ne^ts and if others should be found to continue 

 in a relative similarity, a description of one would suffice. The 

 first, found June ist, 1902, was fastened, one foot from tip, on to 

 limb of a small shrubby spruce, three feet from the trunk and six 

 from the g^round. The spot chosen was a side hill covered with a 

 growth of young spruce and cedar. The nest, well hidden by an 

 overhanging branch held four fresh eg-gs and was composed ex- 

 teriorally of dead spruce twigs neatly interwoven with yellow birch 

 bark shreds and lined with fine grasses and anim il hair. Its in- 

 side diameter measured 1^, outside 3 inches ; inside depth, i^, 

 outside, 2^3 inches. The well rounded and 'inished appearance 

 and the predominance of birch bark rem'nded me of certain vireos' 

 nests. Two nests found later, on June 9th and 29th, were simi- 

 larly situated and constructed and contained respectively four fresh 

 and one addled egg. The eggs measure uniformly .66 x 49, are 

 white distinctly and obscurely dotted, chiefly at the larger end, 

 with varying shades of rufous brown and lilac and a few distinct 

 spots of black. 



