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the Parula Warbler with incubation 

 quite well advanced. 



The nest was made entirely of long 

 moss woven together with a few grass 

 stems. Both male and female were 

 close by all the time we were around 

 the nest. 



About a half hour later I found an- 

 other nest in a cedar up about eigh- 

 teen feet, containing four eggs which 

 were nearly fresh. This nest was a 

 very pretty affair, being built on a 

 good sized limb which had an abund- 

 ance of long strips of moss, some of 

 them twelve inches long. The moss 

 was very thick over the top of the 

 nest so the nest was not visible from 

 the top. The birds entered the nest 

 on each side. This nest was built 

 the same as the other, woven together 

 with a few grass stems. We looked 

 over an hour before I located the 

 third nest, which was in a cedar up 

 fifteen feet and contained three young 

 about three days old, and one egg. 

 This time the female was found on 

 nest and did not leave until I touched 

 the nest with my hand. 



We looked for sometime and in 

 some good looking places, but with no 

 results. I find you can tell when you 

 are near a nest by the action of the 

 birds and by the sharp "chip" uttered 

 by them while near their home. 



G. R. Barlow. 

 South Killingly, Ct. 



Double Shelled Hens' Eggs. 

 W. H. Leibelsperger, of Fleetwood. 

 Pa., writes that one of his friends re- 

 cently brought him a tame chicken's 

 egg that measured 8% b 7^/4 inches. It 

 was 3.08x2.28 inches. He says: "After 

 removing the contents I discovered 

 that there was another egg within. 

 This egg was removed by drilling out 

 a hole with a diamiter a trifle larger 

 than the diameter of the inner egg 



and also blown. The inner egg is 2.12 

 X 1.62 inches. The inner egg was sur- 

 rounded by the usual contents of an 

 egg. The shell of the outer egg is ■ 

 white and that of the inner one is 

 yellow." 



It is too bad that the hole in the 

 outer egg was made large enough to 

 permit the removal of the inner one, 

 as that very largely destroys that val- 

 ue of the specimen. Were the two 

 both blown and the hole in the larger 

 one still so small that the inner one 

 could not be removed then indeed 

 would Mr. Leibelsperber have a rare 

 specimen. We have the only speci- 

 men of this kind known to us that is 

 prepared in this way. — Editor. 



We recently purchased of W. I. 

 Varner of Athens, Georgia, the fourth 

 double-shelled egg which we have ever 

 seen, and likewise the fourth specimen 

 of this character in our collection. It 

 is rather roughly prepared, having a 

 hole punched in one end of the larger 

 egg about the size of a man's fore fing- 

 er. The inner egg has a ragged hole 

 broken in the side of it about one-third 

 this size. However it is prepared and 

 blown in such a manner that the smal- 

 ler egg cannot be taken out of the 

 larger egg through the hole made and 

 this of course certifies to the genuine- 

 ness of the specimen. 



By far the best specimen of this 

 character that we have ever seen or 

 known of came into our possession 

 from Alex. Walker, of Armour, South 

 Dakota. In that case both eggs, the 

 outer and inner, were blown through 

 small holes with modern oological 

 tools and is without doubt the best 

 specimen of this kind in existence. 



Mr. L. E. Miller, one of our subscrib- 

 ers and an enthusiastic bird student 

 of Huntingburg, Indiana, has recently 

 returned from an extended trip into 

 South America. 



