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live oak tree and on the end of a horizontal branch among twigs 

 * * * absolutely concealed * * * about 38 feet above the 

 ground." Wayne climbed a nearby tree and with Moessner's help 

 from below, attempted to pull the oak limb toward him in order to 

 reach the nest, when "sad to relate, without a moment's warning, the 

 limb snapped off and the four fresh eggs that the nest contained were 

 dashed in fragments on the ground." 



The nest itself was preserved, and Wayne describes it as "small and 

 compact, measuring 1% inches in height and II/2 inches in depth. It 

 is constructed of strips of fine bark and weed stems, over which is 

 wound externally the black substance that is invariably present in 

 the lining of the nests of Bachman's Warbler {Vermivora hachmanii) . 

 The interior * * * jg chiefly composed of a beautiful ochraceous 

 buff substance, doubtless from the unfolding leaves of some fern, and 

 a few feathers." 



On the twenty-eighth, ten days after this nest was found, Wayne 

 returned to the swamp with the Misses Louise Ford and Marion Pellew 

 and found "a very young bird just from the nest and unable to fly 

 more than a few feet, being fed by the male parent, which shows that 

 the birds breed irregularly." 



The party proceeded to another part of the swamp where a female 

 was seen to enter a large magnolia. "Miss Ford * * * saw the 

 female go to her nest * * * built near the extremity of a long 

 drooping magnolia limb, but on the horizontal portion of it and about 

 25 feet above the ground." This nest held four heavily incubated eggs, 

 these being the first ones actually taken. This nest had a quantity of 

 caterpillar silk binding the fibres of Spanish and hypnum moss out- 

 side, and was "lavishly lined with the beautiful ochraceous buff sub- 

 stance from young fern leaves, as in the first nest." 



Edward S. Dingle (MS.) writes that "on the morning of April 25, 

 1923, a Wayne's warbler was observed building in a cypress tree ; the 

 bird collected material from the ground and also from the trunk of a 

 large cypress nearby. The male was not seen." On the third of May 

 following, I accompanied Wayne and Dingle to the site ; there Dingle 

 located the nest, climbed the tree, and secured it, with four eggs. This 

 nest was 62 feet from the ground and 5 feet out from the trunk. This 

 is the third, and last nest from South Carolina with eggs, on which 

 data are extant. All, with the exception of the first, were in Wayne's 

 collection at his death, and are now in the Charleston (S. C.) Museum. 

 The sites in each case, were found by Wayne, but the nests were actually 

 located by Moessner, Dingle, and Miss Ford. 



Commenting on these discoveries, Wayne (1919) states: "I have 

 known this bird ever since May 4, 1885 when I took a male in Caw-caw 

 Swamp, Colleton County, S. C, while on a collecting trip with my 



