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slip from the nest and glide, mouse-like, from my view and remain 

 hidden, so that with the limited time I had to remain I was not able 

 to identify the owner. This nest was placed in a dense growth of 

 raspberry bushes, weeds and ferns, in an old cutting, which was 

 well grown up to clumps of underbrush of maple, beech, Ijirch, hem- 

 lock and spruce. It was situated about six inches from the ground, 

 in a clump of vines, and made up of very similar material as the 

 nest above described l)y Mr. vSpaulding, and contained four incu- 

 bated eggs. They somewhat resembled the eggs of the Yellow- 

 throat. 



On June 10, 1903, while driving from Athens to Hartland, in 

 Somerset Co., I saw a male Mourning Warbler perched on a limb 

 of a tree, the same tree in which I had seen him in the trip two weeks 

 before. I drove my horse to a house near by and left him and 

 returned to look for a nest. I again saw the male and heard his 

 pleasing song. The locality was a typical place for this Warbler 

 to be nesting. After much search through the underbrush and old 

 raspberry vines, I located the nest, wnth four eggs in it. The female 

 was on the nest as I approached, and skulked off near the ground, 

 only giving me opportunity to catch a glance at her. I marked 

 the place carefully, and retired some distance from the place and 

 waited for her to return to the nest. After a considerable time I 

 stealthily approached the nest and placed my hat over it and 

 female, thus positively establishing her identity. The nest was 

 quite a bulky affair and placed at the base of a clump of coarse weed 

 stalks about six inches from the ground. The outer nest was of dry 

 leaves and vine stalks. The nest proper was made up with a thick 

 outer wall of dead, coarse, flat-bladed grass, with finer grasses and 

 a few weed stalks, and all through this outer wall was interwoven a 

 few small, dead, white maple leaves. The inner wall was composed 

 of fine grasses, and the inner lining contained a few horse hairs. It 

 was a very neat, compact nest, well built to protect the eggs from 

 the dampness from the moist ground, where it was placed. It meas- 

 ured, outside diameter, five inches ; inside diameter, two inches ; 

 outside depth, three and one-half Indies; inside deptli, two inches. 



