30 JOURNAL OF MAINE ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



June i6, 1907, I flushed a Nashville from her nest containing 

 five eggs, pinkish, cream white. The eggs were covered with 

 minute, reddish-brown and lavender specks and ringed around the 

 larger end and with dots of greater size. The female chirped in the 

 neighborhood of the nest some, but as soon as I concealed myself 

 near, resumed her task of incubation. The next time I visited the 

 nest, the bird allowed me to study her closely before taking flight. 

 She is inclined to jerk her tail and flutter her wings somewhat 

 while fretting. Her scolding note is very soft and uttered irregu- 

 larly. Once when she was away, the male fluttered over the nest 

 twice but did not take her place. 



June 26th, four eggs hatched in the Warbler nest, one not fer- 

 tile. 



Third day, the mother was very loath to leave her charge. 

 The young birds had little holes for ears, a dark spot on the head 

 where pinfeathers will appear, and the same kind of dark space 

 down the middle of the back. The birds are very yellow, covered 

 with burnt umber natal down. 



On the seventh day the young Warblers looked remarkably 

 mature. They are dark brown-gray on the head, a sort of olive- 

 brown or greenish-brown on the back, have buffy wing bars and are 

 brownish-yellow underneath. On my making the slightest move- 

 ment, they snuggle down in the nest and lie so flat it is all but 

 impossible to distinguish them at all. Their little, bright eyes 

 look full of comprehension. 



The tenth day, the ninth complete day in the nest, July 5th, 

 when I went to take their photograph, they were gone. The nest 

 was disturbed in no wise. The egg lay outside where it had been 

 left by the bird it clung to. A mass of fresh ordure in the nest 

 indicated that the bird had now departed. 



The nest was shaded by a miniature forest of firs. The moss 

 around the top, in this case, was hair-cap, the lining, hay, the red 

 fruit stems of hair-cap moss, fine, black vegetable fibre, and rabbit's 

 hair. The parent birds keep the nest very clean. There are, how- 

 ever, the bran-like particles of quill envelopes in the interstices of 



