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about waist high from the ground. Thouj;h 

 fairly well concealed by leaves, it is not generally 

 in so dense a mass of foliage as some. 1 lia\c 

 found a number of these nests by tajipini; the 

 bushes with a switcli and seeing the owni-r dan 

 out or hearing the slight rustle of her departure. 



The delight of finding a nest is greatly en- 

 hanced by the tameness of the little owners. They 

 are among the easiest of birds to photograph at 

 the nest, making little objection tn incubating or 

 feeding the young in one's immediate presence. 

 In one case I was focusing the camera on tlu- 

 nest, with head under the cloth, when I saw the 

 image of the mother on the ground glass. She 

 let me focus on her, and then take all the picture; 

 I wanted, her feathers fluffed up in a very gentle 

 and pretty protest. 



On another occasion when I was liird-sporting 

 with a motion-picture camera and a boy assistant. 

 seeing that the owners of a nest of this species 

 which 1 had found were remarkably fearless, I 

 had the bov sit quietly by the nest, holding the 

 young in his hand. Tn a short time the iiarents, 

 who had found us gentle and harmless, were 

 using him as a convenient roost and were all 

 over him, on legs, arms, hands, and Iiead. It was 

 a wonderful film of these beautiful birds that I 

 thus secured. HEKHEirr K. Jon. 



. Job 



Courtesy uf Outing Pub. 

 CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER 

 est, a neat little structure, placed in a fo 



BAY-BREASTED WARBLER 

 Dendroica castanea {Wilson) 



Other Names. — Little Chocolate-hreast Titmoii.^e ; 

 Bay-breast. 



General Description. — Lengtli, 6 inches. Upper 

 parts. butify-oHve. black, and chestnut ; under parts, 

 chestnut and bufT. Bill, shorter tlian head, slender, 

 tapering gradually to the tip; wings, long and pointed; 

 tail, notched. 



Color. — Adult Male: Foychcad. sides of crozvn. 

 sides of hi-ad. I. ires, and elu-eks. Idacl,' einlosiiu/ a patch 

 of rich clicstnut : sides of neck, plain buff; back and 

 shoulders, gray, usually tinged (sometimes strongly) 

 with buffy-olive and broadly streaked with black ; rump, 

 similar but with streaks concealed; upper tail-coverts, 

 gray with center streaks of blackish ; tail, grayish-black 

 or dusky with light-gray edgings, the inner webs of two 

 or three outermost tail-feathers with a patch of white, 

 that on exterior feather occupying the terminal third or 

 more ; wings, grayish-black or dusky with light olive- 

 gray or olive edgings, the middle and greater coverts 

 broadly tipped with white, forming two conspicuous 

 bands across wing; Ihrnal ( snmrliinrs chin also), chest, 

 sides, and flanks, plain lioht cheslnul : rest of under 

 parts, plain pale buff, the under tail-coverts more 

 decidedly buffy ; bill, brownish-black; iris, brown; legs 



and feet, dusky-brownish. .Aiici.T Fem.kle: Essen- 

 tially similar to the male e.xcept in extent of the chest- 

 nut, which is often almost entirely absent, and never so 

 strongly marked ; whole crown usually distinctly 

 streaked with black on a gray, olive, or olive-green 

 ground, the crown and back of the head usually inter- 

 mixed with chestnut, sometimes with a considerable 

 patch of that color ; chestnut of under parts sometimes 

 wholly absent, but usually the area so colored in the 

 male is indicated, especially across chest and along 

 sides; forehead and sides of head never (?) black. 



Nest and Eggs. — Nest : Commonly placed in a 

 coniferous tree from five to twenty feet up ; a com- 

 pact, cup-shaped structure made of rootlets, strips of 

 bark, small twigs, and some dried grass. Eggs: 

 Usually 4, bluish-white, finely speckled around larger 

 end with chestnut. 



Distribution. — Eastern United States and British 

 Provinces; north to Hudson Bay and Manitoba; west 

 to edge of the Great Plains ; bree<ling southward to 

 northern Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont, New York, 

 and northern Michigan ; in winter southward throu,gh 

 eastern Mexico and Central ."Xnierica to Panama and 

 Colombia. 



