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were noted in lowlands, within 10 feet of the ground, in dense tangles 

 of blackberry bushes, rosebushes, or grapevines. The remaining 2, 

 both fall birds, were in rather well -drained, brushy, and weedy fields." 

 Dr. E. W. Nelson (1887) says of its status in Alaska: 



Throughout the wooded region of Northern Alaska, from the British boundary 

 lin o west to the shores of Bering Sea, and from the Alaskan range of mountains 

 north within the Arctic Circle as far as the tree-limit, this species is a rather 

 common summer resident. It is known along the shores of Bering Sea and 

 Kotzebue Sound mainly as an autumn migrant, as it straggles to the southward 

 at the end of the breeding season. Wherever bushes occur along the northern 

 coast of the Territory it is found at this season, and at Saint Michaels it was 

 a common bird each summer from the last of July up to about the middle of 

 August, after which it became rare and soon disappeared. I have never noted 

 It on the sea-coast during the spring migration. 



The Prebles (1908) found it well distributed and probably breeding 

 throughout the Athabaska-Mackenzie region. MacFarlane (1908) 

 found it breeding as far north as the Anderson Eiver. Kennicott, 

 according to Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway (1874), found it nesting 

 about Great Slave Lake. And Ernest Thompson Seton (1891) re- 

 ported it as a common summer resident and breeding near Carberry, 

 Manitoba. 



Nesting. — Herbert Brandt (1943) found two nests of the eastern 

 orange-crowned warbler along the Yukon River in Alaska, about 20 

 miles up from the sea, on July 1, 1924. His first nest contained five 

 eggs, advanced in incubation. The nest was near the bank of the 

 river, "in a bush 18 inches from the ground. The nest was loosely 

 made of coarse grass held together with bark strips, silvery plant 

 down, and a few feathers, one of which was a mottled feather of the 

 Northern Varied Thrush. Twenty feet away was another nest of the 

 same species, which held three young just hatched and two pipped 

 eggs. * * * q^i^e measurements of the two nests cited are : height, 

 2.25 to 3.00 ; outside diameter, 3.5 ; inside diameter, 1.75 ; and depth of 

 cup, 1.50 to 1.75 inches." 



MacFarlane's (1908) nests, found on the Anderson River, "held 

 from four to six eggs each, and they were made of hay or grasses 

 lined with deer hair, feathers and finer grasses, and were usually 

 placed in a shallow cavity on the ground in the shade of a clump of 

 dwarf willow or Labrador tea." 



Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway (1874) write: 



The nests of this species, seen by Mr. Kennicott, were uniformly on the ground, 

 generally among clumps of low bushes, often in the side of a bank, and usually 

 hidden by the dry leaves among which they were placed. He met with these 

 nests in the middle of June in the vicinity of Great Slave Lake. They were 

 large for the size of the bird, having an external diameter of four inches, and 

 a height of two and a half, and appearing as if made of two or three distinct 



