OENITHOLOGIST 



[Vol. 13-No. 1 



ground in tlio woods. Eggs long, l)ut not 

 pointed. Glossy white, marked near the larger 

 ends with dark reddish brown and lilac spots: 

 .G7X.4G: 70 X. 4(5; .G',lx.4G: .71 x .48. 



Set XIII. .Iiine 4. 1881. Groton I-ong Point, 

 New London County, Conn. Four eggs, fresh. 

 Nest in large hornbeam tree in salt marsh. 

 Thirty feet from the ground. No bird ou eggs 

 but heard. Nest unmistakable. Eggs ereamy 

 white, quite glossy. Marked with spots and 

 speeks of dark reddish brown and lilac. These 

 are in the form of wreaths around the larger 

 ends, but the remainder of the eggs are almost 

 wholly unmarkivl: .0.5x48; .66x47: .07x.48: 

 .66X.47. 



Set XIV. June .5, 1885. Monroe County, 

 Penn. Collected by Theodore Roth. Three 

 eggs, fresh. Nest of hanging moss, on oak 

 tree, about thirty feet from the ground. Eggs 

 very small. White, quite heavily spotted with 

 reddish brown and lilac: .61 x .45 ; .61x.44; 

 .60 X .42. 



Set XV. May 2!), 1886. Hell Gate, Preston, 

 Conn. Four eggs, fresh. Nest in low dead 

 savin, near path in deciduous woods. Female 

 seen. Eggs white, quite heavily spotted with 

 bright reddish brown and lilac. These are 

 principally grouped around the larger ends : 

 .64X.47; .62x.47; .61x.47; .63 x .47. 



Set XVI. June 12, 1881. Giotou, Long Point, 

 New London County, Conn. Two eggs, fresh. 

 Nest in low swamp oak, reached from ground. 

 Eggs white, marked at large ends with bright 

 reddish brown spots : .68 x .44 ; 64 x .45. 



Set XVII. June 4, 1881. Groton Long Point, 

 New London County, Conn. Four eggs, fresh. 

 Nest in swamp oak, near trunk, and seven feet 

 from the ground. It was constructed of iisnca. 

 Female on eggs. Male near. Eggs white, 

 spotted and speckled all over with bright red- 

 dish brown and a few lilac ones : .67 x .48 ; .66 

 X.46; .69x48; .67 x .47. 



Set XVIII. June 4, 1881. Groton Long 

 Point, Conn. Four eggs, fresh. Nest in 

 swamp maple. Eggs light creamy white speck- 

 led with lilac and dark reddish brown. At 

 the larger ends the specks form indistinct 

 wreaths: .71x.47; .68x.45; .68 x.46; .71 x .45. 



Set XIX. June 12, 1886. Groton Long Point, 

 near Noank, Conn., on Long Island Sound. 

 Seven eggs, incubation just begun, and equally 

 in the whole clutch. Nest hidden in heavy 

 growth of hanging lichen, about twelve feet 

 from the ground, and near the trunk of out- 

 standing oak. It was betrayed by the female, 

 who was startled from the eggs by jarring the 

 tree. No other nests or birds on tree. Eggs 



glossy white speckled and spotted with lilac 

 and bright reddish brown. The markings 

 form indistinct wreaths near the larger ends; 

 .68 X ..50; .65 x .51; .66 x .49; .66 x .49; 

 .66X.50; .64X.48; .60x.51. 



Set XX. May 11, 1887. Iredell County, 

 North Carolina. Collected by P. B. McLaugh- 

 lin. Five eggs, fresh. Nest made almost com- 

 pletely of long gray moss, woven together. 

 Lined with a few feathers and soft materials. 

 Female on nest. Eggs white, speckled and 

 spotted, almost wholly at the larger ends, with 

 lilac and bright reddish brown: .69x.47; .70 x 

 .47; .68X.47; .69x.48; .68 x .46. 



Set XXI. June 3, 1883. Harvey's Swamp, 

 Preston, New London County, Conn. Three 

 eggs, fresh. Nest on dead limb of green white 

 oak. All made of «.5?ica, no lining. Two other 

 nests building near by. Both male and female 

 seen. Eggs light creamy white, quite blunt, 

 and heavily wreathed with very dark reddish 

 brown and lilac. Thej' bear a remarkable re- 

 semblance to certain undoubted eggs of Den- 

 drceca virens before the writer: .66x.50; .66 x 

 .50; .66X.4!). 



Set XXII. June 11, 1886. Groton Long 

 Point, New London County, Conn. Three 

 eggs. Nest ill tall swamp — huckleberry bush 

 — usnea over bush and neighboring trees. 

 Birds seen. Eggs white, (juite heavily spotted 

 near the larger ends with reddish brown and 

 lilac: .70 x.46; .68 x .47 ; .66x.47. 



Set XXII 1. June 4, 1886. Groton Long 

 Point, New Loudon County, Conn. Three 

 eggs, incubation begun. Nest on a large horn- 

 beam tree, low down, and near the trunk. 

 Eggs creauiy white, and glossy, wreathed near 

 the larger ends with light reddish brown and 

 lilac : .68 x .48 ; .69 x .47 ; .66 x .47. 



Set XXIV. June 11, 1886. Groton Long 

 Point, New Loudon County, Conn. Four eggs, 

 fresh. Nest in oak tree, near trunk, twenty- 

 five feet from ground. Bggs white, beautifully 

 wreathed near the larger ends with bright red- 

 dish brown specks, and also a few lilac ones. 

 The remainder of the surface is almost wholly 

 unnutrked : .67 x .51 ; .66x.50; .66x.48; .65 

 X.49. 



Set XXV. June 8, 1886. Hell Gate, East 

 Side, Preston, Conn. Four eggs. Nest on a 

 long savin limb, with foliage. It hung con- 

 spicuously as there was no other bunch of 

 moss on the tree. Four rods from the tree con- 

 taining this nest, there were other nests of this 

 species, containing eggs, both east and west. 

 Eggs light creamy white, quite heavily wreath- 

 ed near the larger ends with light reddish 



