.Vo/r.s- ,,u l/,r li\nls. 379 



;ij,Miii. 'I'licii llifv scii.-iralcd, f lliciii ll\iii;i in .'i slow tliil Icriim soil 



(.r way jicrnss llic (ipcn space lo an n|,| siiai; in wiiicli llic fcuial.' was l.nil.l- 

 int; tlic ncsi. Witli \viM^'s IkmiI downwanl anil tail (intsin-cad so as to slmw 

 plainly the white outer fcathei's. lie would i^ivc expression to liis happiness 

 in an rxciicd hut ijleasini,' little sont,' which I wish I could descrihe. were 

 I uiiod at that sort of Ihin^. Then he iierched uim)1i a linih just ahove luy 

 head, where, with drcppinu. tremulous wiir^'s. and head erect, he warliled 

 very |)rellily his delicate little snn.i; of love, oblivious of all cxcepi of her 

 who was so iMisy al the old willow siiai:. .Mthon.uh she seemed very busy 

 indee<l. she dduhlless heard Ilie lillle son;: ami understood full well its suh- 



I airaiii visited this swami>. .May 'Jl. iss.-,. Several Colden S\vanii» Warlt- 

 lers or I'l-othonotarias were sei-u chasinic ahout. across and around tlie open 



si>aces auioiij; the trees that st I in water one to three feet deej). The 



s(>nsou was evidently latei- than it was in 18S:!. Several nests were found 

 hut layinj; had not yet hcM^un. The males wen> in full sonii and a very 

 pr(>tty siKlit tliey made. 



The nest.s. e.xaniined critically on my lii'st \isit, were, as already staled, 

 always <)eeui»ied deserted sai)sucker or similar holes usually in small rollen 

 trees, saplinjis or snaiis. and varied from four to ten feel alio\c the water. 

 One examined was ahout six feet up in a very rotten snau' not over four 

 inches in diameter. The shell left by the excavation of the hole was very 

 thin, less than lialf an inch. The cavity was but four inches iTeep anu was 

 tilled nearly to tlie top l)y tlie nest whieli was coniim.sed almost entirely 

 of some species of moss. Several other nests sit\iat(>d in similar places and 

 constructed from similar materials were seen. 



178. Hei.mitiikkos vkkmivohis ((Jmelin). w ()km-i:.\tix(; wakbler. (6o9) 



Common summer resident in Monroe and Vijio counties: not noted in 

 CaiToll. Nests on the .iiround. I have seen nests in the woods east of Terre 

 Haute, also near ("oal Creek northwest of Ihat city. April 20. 1SS7. nest 

 with three ef;j;s at Pine Hills. M(iiitj,'omery County. On April 28, 1888. I 

 collected a tine specimen about live miles southwest of Terre Haute. 



On May 4. ISSC. I collected a pair ahout two mile< northeast of liloom- 

 instoii. The lirst (a nmle) was in a thicket on a hillside near an old road. 

 AVhen first seen it was near the ground. I hen il tlew inio a bush about eiirht 

 feet \\\K About a half mile further north 1 obtained a female. When first 

 seen it was on the ground at the bottom of a small canon. liesides these 

 two. several others were observed on the same day. <^ne pair seen building 

 a nest at the foot of a small maple sprout on a hillside fjicing west. The 

 nest was not nearly completed. One of the birds, probably the female, was 

 carrying dead leaves with which she made the bttttom and outsidi' walls. 

 She would come near the nest while I was sitting within 20 feet of it. eye 

 me suspiciously, tly away some distjince. return by short flights, then fly 

 away again, oidy to repeat the maneuvers again until 1 movi-d fartlu'r 

 away, then she came to the nest and i»roc(M'ded with the building. 



On May i::>. I found a nest with five eggs i»lus two of the cowbiid. I'rof. 

 W. S. Blatchley found a nest with six eggs of the warbler and one cowbird. 

 Both of these nests were on a hillside and each was at the base of a small 

 shruh. All the eggs were fresh. 



