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15. Pine Warbler. Dendroica vigorsii. 

 A common summer resident, nesting 

 in pine trees, usually at elevations of 

 tifty feet or more from ground. A nest 

 and four eggs were taken April 29th, '91. 

 This nest was made of weed stems, pine 

 straw, chicken feathers, spider webs 

 and other fibres, lined with hair and 

 feathers, and placed 50 feet up on a hor- 

 izontal pine limb, 5 feet from body of 

 tree. Sizes of eggs .71x.54, .73x.54, .73 

 X.53, .72X.53. 



16. Prairie Warbler. Dendroica dis- 

 color. Common summer resident. I 

 found a pair building April 30th, '83. 

 The nest was completed by May 3d, and 

 the first egg, laid the 7th. The set of 

 four was completed and taken May 10th. 

 This nest was made of grass, reed leaves 

 and bits of spider webs, and lined with 

 hair and feathers, placed 2i feet up in 

 forks of small maple bush. The eggs 

 measure .70x.48, .67x.49, .67x.48, .66x 

 .51. 



17. Oven-bird. Sciurus aurocainllus . 

 Common summer resident. A nest 

 was found May 19th, '92, which con- 

 tained four fresh eggs. The nest was 

 of skeleton leaves, pine straw and tine 

 grass, lined with hair and fine leaves 

 and was placed in shallow hole in the 

 ground on a hill near a swamp. The 

 eggs measure .75x.63, .74x.63, .73x.61, 

 .74X.61. 



18. Louisiana Water-Thrush. ' Seiur- 

 us motacilla. A common summer resi- 

 dent along the small branches and 

 swamps. A nest was taken April 22, 

 '92, which contained four eggs. The 

 nest was of leaves which were taken 

 from the mud, and coarse grass, lined 

 Avith finer grass, moss and a few very 

 fine black roots, and imbedded in side 

 of a mossy bank, 1 foot above small 

 stream of water. Sizes of eggs, .78x.58, 

 .77X.58, .78X.60, 77x.59. 



19. Hooded Warbler. Sylvania milra- 

 ta. A very common summer resident, 

 arriving the first of April, our most 

 common warbler. During the month 



of May and the first part of June, 91, I 

 took ten nests Avith eggs of this species 

 and have seen four nests this spring. 

 Of the fourteen nests, eight contained 

 three eggs each and the others four. The 

 nests are placed in low bushes from li 

 to 4 feet up, and are made of partly de- 

 cayed leaves, strips of bai'k, etc., lined 

 inside usually with a fine black moss. 

 A set of four eggs taken May 18th, '91, 

 show the following sizes: .72x.49, .71x.49 

 .70X.49, .70X.49. Another set taken 

 May 11th, measure .67x.53, .70x.53, .66x 

 .53 .66x53. Athird set of 3 eggs taken May 

 16, '92,measure .67x.52, .70x.53, .71x.53. 



20. Mockingbird. Mimus j^olyglottos. 

 A tolerably common resident. Nests 

 placed in grapevines and orchard-trees, 

 and made of sticks, cotton, weeds, etc., 

 lined with fine weed stems. A set of 

 four eggs taken May 28th, '92, measure 

 .97X.73, 1.02X.76, .98x.74, .98x.74. 



21. Catbird. Galeoscoptes carolinensis. 

 Common resident. Nest in briars and 

 bushes. A set of four eggs taken May 

 21, '92, measure .90x.67, .90x.67, .89x.66, 

 .91X.67. 



22. Carolina Wren. Thryothortis lU' 

 doviciarius. A very common resident. 

 ^ nest taken May 5th, '91, was of leaves 

 moss, bark, etc., lined with hair, and 

 placed in bow of small boat, Ijdng on 

 shore of Albemarle Sound. This nest 

 contained five eggs, which measure .76x 

 .59, .79X.60, .77X.59, .77x.59, .76x.59. 



23. Brown-headed Nuthatch. Sitta 

 jnisilla. A common resident. Nests of 

 strips of bark, pine seed, leaves, wool, 

 etc., placed in holes, picked by the birds 

 in dead stumps, usually pines, from 2 to 

 25 feet, or more, up. Eggs five, some- 

 times six. A set of five eggs taken Ap- 

 ril 29th, '91, measure .60x.46, .58x.46, 

 .60X.45, ..57X.46, 57x.46. 



24. Carolina Chickadee. Parus caro- 

 linensis. Common resident. A nest 

 taken May 4tli, '92, was made of moss 

 and fine shreds of bark, lined with a 

 cottony fibre, placed 8 feet up, in a hole 

 picked in the top of a dead ash stub, 



