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nests are neatly and compactly built of strips of bark and weeds, a 

 few roots and bits of dry oak leaves, lined with hairs and a few 

 feathers. The nests I have examined were not as deep and cup- 

 shaped as the nest of the Myrtle Warbler, but shaped more like the 

 nest of the Magnolia Warbler. 



Of the several nests I have seen, four eggs were the comple- 

 ment. They were placed from eighteen to twenty-five feet up. 

 They were placed invariably in smallish pines, at the edge of the 

 taller pines and deep woods, in an old clearing or opening on a side 

 hill, where were interspersed a few small oak and some gray birch. 

 Two nests I have examined were found in Livermore by Mr. Guy 

 H. Briggs. One nest, with young, I found near Sheepscot Bridge, 

 one in Jefferson, and two in Damariscotta. Have seen evidence of 

 nesting near Camden, South Hope, Warren and Wiscasset. The 

 eggs are dull whitish or grayish-white ground, well speckled and 

 spotted wdth lilac-gray and burnt umber, and usually there is a 

 wreath about the larger end. The egg averages about .68 x .52. 



This interesting, busy little Warbler gleans incessantly for 

 insect food, catching them right and left, as he goes creeping in 

 and out the boughs of the evergreen trees, much like that relative 

 of his, the Black and White Warbler, occasionally uttering a clear 

 little trill that is somewhat like the song of the Chipping Sparrow, 

 yet easily distinguished from it. After the young are on the wing, 

 they may be seen in little family groups, creeping eagerly for food, 

 and from September 5th to the first half of October they slowly 

 wend their way to a warmer clime. 



