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was takeu at Bangor on June 19th. 

 It contained four fresh eggs. The 

 nest was placed on the ground, well 

 hidden in a small clump of grass, at 

 the foot of an alder sapling. It was 

 composed entirely of skeletonized 

 leaves, dried grass with one or two 



horse -hairs in lining was a very 

 frail structure and came to pieces 

 when removed. Its measurements 

 were: Outside diameter 3 inches; 

 inside diameter 1| in.; outside depth 

 2 in.; inside depth li in. Eggs meas- 

 ured: .58x45, .60X.46, .60x.45, .59x45. 



NEST AND EGGS OF WILSON'S WARBI^ER. 

 Herraon Bog, Hermon, Me., June i, 1902. 



Both old birds were seen and identi- 

 fication was complete. 



The date of the finding of the sec- 

 ond, I do not exactly remember but 

 was about 10 days later or about June 

 29. The nest contained well fledged 

 young, in fact they left the nest while 



I was looking at them. The nest was 

 similar in every respect to the first, 

 perhaps a trifle stouter and placed in 

 a position almost identical with that 

 in which the first one was placed. 

 The old birds approached me very 

 closely, feeding their yoimg within a 



