The OoLOGiST. 



Vol. XXI. No. 2. Albion, N. Y., February, 1904. Whole No. 199 



The Oologist. 



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ERNEST H. SHORT. Editor and Manager. 

 Chili. Monroe Co.. M. Y. 



Patched Together. 



Black-throated Blue Warbler 

 AND Others. 

 The Editor has just closed a pleas- 



ant correspondence with Mr. C. F. 

 vStone of Branchport, Yates Co., N. Y. 

 in regard to the identity of two sets of 

 Warbler's eggs and it has occurred to 

 him that parts of Mr. Stone's letters 

 patched up, would prove as interest- 

 ing to many readers of the Oologist as 

 to him. 



In regard to the sets Mr. Stone was in 

 doubt about, following is copied from 

 correspondence of Nov. 19th, 1908. 



"1 had come to an open space in 

 dense hushes, (a hush lot surrounded 

 by hemlocks), and noted two or three 

 dense growths of beech spnjuts from 

 sfumps. 



I looked at one likely bunch putting 

 my hand in the top where the leaves 

 were matted and, with a loud flutter, 

 away went a bird. I peered over into 

 the' nest which was hidden in the 

 dense foliage. It rested on the dense 

 and tangled leaves and sprouts, con- 

 cealed all around but open to the sky. 

 The female when Mushed dropped to 

 the ground and remained out of sight 

 for two or three minutes, then I saw 

 her coming back through the low 

 bushes but she was so lively that a 

 real good look at her was impossible. 

 Here is a description of the female 

 that I gainetl as she Hitted in a most 

 lively manner through bushes, high 

 and low, or through dead limbs close 

 to the ground. 



Under parts from breast to within 

 about li inch of end of tail a soiled 

 yellowish, brighter inthe rear. Breast 

 dusky, throat dingy white, side of 

 head an 1 upper neck bluisli ashy, up- 

 per parts uniform dark olive brown, 

 tip of tail blackish on unilerside for 

 about ^4 inch. 



This Warbler's note or "chip" is 

 peculiar, wholly different from any 

 other warbler I've ever heard. It is 

 strong, vigorous, alto-toned, musical, 

 seems to approach the "chip" of the 

 Maryland Yellow-throat yet liifferent". 



The eggs, four in number taken 

 June 21st., 1903, contained small em- 

 bryos. After comparing the set and 



