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Ninth day, quills pretty well removed. Young birds resemble 

 parent birds strongly. 



Eleventh day, June 27th, nest empty, but fresh excrement just 

 outside would indicate that the bird had but now taken wing. 

 That would give ten full days in the nest. In another case the 

 young left the nest on the eleventh day before 8.30 A. M. A third 

 nest of birds left probably on the eleventh day, but as I did not visit 

 the nest on the tenth day, I could not be positive. 



A nest containing five young birds, either two or three days 

 old, found June 13th, 1909, is the earliest record I have of the nest- 

 ing of the Nashville. A nest found August 7th, 1907, the bird in- 

 cubating three eggs, is the latest record I have of the nesting of 

 this bird. As late as Aug. 23rd, 1908. I noted both parent birds 

 feeding young. 



July 6th, 1909, a Nashville was incubating three eggs about 

 7.00 o'clock P. M. The following day there were four eggs. I 

 date(J incubation, however, from the day the clutch was completed. 

 Once I saw the male assisting in incubation toward night. I just 

 had time to note the yellow markings aliove the beak, when he was 

 gone. 



A clutch consists of from three to five eggs. The first sets of 

 the season usually contain four or five eggs, the late sets, three, but 

 this rule is far from invariable. I never, however, have found a 

 clutch of five eggs late in the summer. 



The bird spends twelve days incubating, and the young, if un- 

 disturbed, leave the nest on the eleventh day. spending ten com- 

 plete days in the nest. 



In the vicinity of every swamp within a mile of the house, I 

 have found the Nashville nesting. I have never found two nests in 

 the same locality at the same time. One Nashville Warbler seems 

 to cover a comparatively wide range — I believe that to be true, gen- 

 erally, of most birds. I have seen the Black and White Warbler, 

 the Bay-breast, the Junco, the Redstart, the Magnolia, the Nash- 

 ville, the Swainson Thrush and the Robin, all nesting within a few 



