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bound with spiders' silk and lined with horsehair. Locality, a 

 dense growth of small spruce, cedar, tamarac and alders, gradu- 

 ally merging into a large forest This nest also held four fresh 

 eggs, creamy white, encircled on the larger ends with a wreath of 

 brownish purple markings, and averaging 66 x .49. 



Other nests show that the eggs vary considerably more, in 

 the coloring, than do those of the black-throated green warbler, 

 one nest containing eggs finely dotted over the entire surface 

 with light grayish brown. In this locality the Magnolia warbler 

 commences building about the first of June and four eggs, I found 

 invariably, to be the complement. Two nests noticed on the 15th 

 and 20th of June contained young newly hatched. 



Myrtle Warbler. — This species appeared to be more abun- 

 dant than any of those previously mentioned, excepting, perhaps, 

 the Magnolia. They commence nest-building about the latter part 

 of May, about one week earlier than the Magnolia. Their nests 

 ate very substantial and warmly built, one found June 3rd, 1902, 

 with five eggs incubation i-5th, was composed chiefly of dead 

 spruce twigs with a few grasses and rootlets, bound with spiders' 

 silk and thickly lined with feathers and animal hair. It was four 

 feet from the ground, built close to the trunk of a young slender 

 spruce with scanty foliage, situated in a spruce grown pasture 

 skirting the swamp. The dimensions of this nest were, inside 

 diameter 2, outside 4 inches ; inside depth i i4, outside 2}^ inches. 



Eight out of ten nests discovered were placed a few feet from 

 the ground near the top of slender spruces, the characteristic ma- 

 terial used being a predominance of spruce twigs with a lining of 

 feathers. Five eggs, less commonly four, composed a set and it 

 would be vain to attempt a description as they show great varia- 

 tion, though in one instance, when I was enabled to examine two 

 sets laid by one female, consecutively on June loth and 24th, the 

 markings were similar, though curiously enough the second nest 

 held five and the first but ft)ur eggs. The nest found on June 

 loth was disturbed, hence the second laying as this species, in 

 common with other warblers, normally breeds, as far as I am 

 aware, but once a year. Measurements also differ considerably, 

 the largest found being .76 x 58 and the smallest .64 x .51, the 

 largest being nearer the average. This warbler is one ot thelast 



