1 1 6 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 53. 



Dendrpica discolor. — Prairie Warbler. May •">. nest in build- 

 ing- in a pine sapling, four and a half feet from the ground. 

 First egg. May 10; later deserted. May 9, another nest three 



feet from the ground in a wild plum tree, with four fresh tggz 

 May 10, another nest in a briar patch; destroyed by a dog. 



Hylocichla mustelina. — Wood Thrush. May \, two nests 

 containing four eggs each, well incubated. The young 1 

 the nests in safety. 



Spizdla pusilla. — Field Sparrow. May I, nest containing 

 four fresh eggs. May 5, nest in an orchard; it was soon de- 

 serted. May 17, a nest within ten feet of the deserted one, 

 containing four eggs in all. Of the nine remaining one was 

 not systematically studied, and the other eight were sooner or 

 later overtaken by disaster. Only one bird out of nine nests 

 (36 eggs') lived long enough to fly. 



Galcoscoplcs carolinensis. — Catbird. May 7, nest in build- 

 ing. First egg May IT ; four eggs May 2 I ; eggs gone May 3! 



Peticcea astfc'alis bachmanni. — Bachm&nn's Sparrow. Ma\ 

 9, nest containing four young two days old. May 10, young 

 dead in the nest. This nest was in an old field partly grown 

 up with pines, wild cherry, sumac, and briars. Nest partV 

 embedded in the ground, composed of grasses arched over; 

 entrance from the west. 



Icteria virens. — Yellow-breasted Chat. May 13, nest with 

 one egg. The fourth egg was laid on the Kith. 



Piranga rubra. — Summer Tanager. May 21, nest in build- 

 ing 1 n a horizontal branch of a«*white oak tree, eighteen b 

 from the ground. Four eggis, slightly incubated on the 31st. 



Vireo flavifrons. — Yellow-throated Yirco. May 24, nest 

 forty feet up in an oak tree a; the door of my workshoj 

 Young left in safety. 



Cyanospisa cyanea. — Indigo Bunting. May 24, nest with 

 four eggs, two feet up in a small oak shrub. The young let'. 

 in safety. 



Myiarchns crinitus. — Crested Flycatcher. Tune 11. nest 

 with five young and an egg. in the hollow trunk of an apple 

 tree in dander's swamp. 



Coccxsus americamis. — Yellow-billed Cuckoo. July 26, nes: 

 nine feet up in an oak. contained two badly incubated eggs. 



