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gallberry bush in open thicket; made 

 of grass and weed stalks, lined with 

 very fine grass and hair from tail of 

 horse. 



May 16. — Field Sparrow (Spizella 

 pusilla). Nest of grass and weed 

 stalks, lined with very fine grass and 

 horse tail hair, containing five slight- 

 ly incubated eggs, measuring as fol- 

 lows: .57X.49, .58X.48, .57x.48, .57x.46, 

 .59X.44; placed two inches off the 

 ground in jessamine vines, running 

 on ground between small stream bor- 

 dered by marsh and) freshly ploughed 

 field, and only two feet from small 

 foot-path. 



May 17. — Yellow-breasted Chat (Ic- 

 teria Virens). Nest, of weed stalks, 

 leaves, reed leaves and grass, lined 

 with fine grass, containing four fresh 

 eggs as follows: .82x.62, .81x.63, .84x 

 .63, .83X.63; placed about six feet from 

 the ground in bunch of running briars 

 covering small sweet gum bush with- 

 in a few yards of constantly used 

 highway near edge of city. 



May 18. — White-eyed Vireo (Vireo 

 noveboracensis). Nest, of fine strips 

 of bark and reed leaves, firmly bound 

 together with spider webs and fine 

 black moss, lined with fine grass; 

 placed between two horizontal limbs 

 of small huckleberry bush, growing 

 in edge of shallow, heavily wooded 

 pond; nest 26 inches above water. 



May 18.— Hooded Warbler (Sylva- 

 nia mitrata). Nest, placed in small 

 myrtle bush, 13 inches from the 

 ground in open part of thicket, made 

 of reed leaves and strips of bark, 

 lined with fine grass, some hair and 

 fine black moss; contents, three 

 fre^h eggs measuring as follows: .64x 

 .54, .67X.52, .G'6x.52. 



May 20.— House Wren (Troglodytes 

 £edon. Nest containing six fresh eggs 

 measuring as follows: .67x.49, .66x.5'0, 

 .67X.49, .70X.49, .68x.50, .67x.48,; made 

 of stick, roots, strips of cedar bark, 



and spider we'bs, lined with horse 

 hair and feathers; built in tin can 

 4 3-4 inches long by 4 inches in diam- 

 eter; placed 28 inches from the 

 ground in bunch of arborvita bushes 

 standing in city cemetery. 



May 29. — Prairie Warbler (Dendroi- 

 ca discolor) . Nest, 33 inches from 

 the ground in small maple 'bush, sup- 

 planted on one side by dead bush; 

 in edge of thicket, wooded regularly 

 with large pines, and thickly grown 

 in places with a various growth of 

 small brush and briers; not more 

 than 60 feet from the N. and W. Rail- 

 road. Nest of very fine 'weed stalks, 

 grass, fine 'bark, and an abundance 

 of spider wehs and grass blossoms, 

 lined with fine green moss, feathers 

 and some hair from tail of horse; 

 containing four eggs advanced in in- 

 cubation, one of which was broken in 

 blowing; the remaining three meas- 

 ure as follows: .58x.43, .58x.44, .60x.43. 

 Identified by Prof. Ridgway, Washing- 

 ton, and iSmithsonian Institution. 



June 8.— House Wj"en (Troglody- 

 tes sedon). Nest, containing five 

 slightly incubated eggs measuring as 

 follows: .66X.50, .67x.50, .65x.48, .67x 

 .50, .67X.51; built in tin sprinkler, 8 

 inches long by 5% inches in diame- 

 ter, hanging on nail driven in trunk 

 of cedar, about 7 feet from the ground, 

 standing in city cemetery; nest built 

 almost to top of sprinkler of small 

 dead cedar limbs, with slight nest of 

 cedar bark, lined with feathers, cast- 

 off snake skins and hair from tail of 

 horse. 



June 17. — ^Green-crested Flycatcher 

 (Empidonax virescens). Nest of 

 Spanish moss, dead moss and fine 

 weed stalks, the two last forming 

 something of a lining; placed in 

 small fork near end of swinging, hor- 

 izontal limib of beech, about 10% feet 

 from the ground and 9 feet from 

 trunk of tree, in thick, dark, heavily 

 wooded forest, only a few hundred 

 feet from large swamp. Eggs meas- 

 ure as follows: .75x.54, .74x.o3, .74x 

 .52. 



R. P. SMITHWICK, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



