THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 81. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XXIV DECEMBER, 1912. NO. 4 



OLD SEKIES VOL. XXIV. NEVF SEBIES VOL. XIX 



PROTHONOTARY WARBLERS (PROTONOTARLA 

 CITREA) NESTING AT RIVERSIDE, 

 ILLINOIS. 



BY ORPHEUS M. SCHANTZ. 



It is a rare pleasure at any time to make a new bird 

 acquaintance, but to find that a supposed occasional spring mi- 

 gration visitor is an " old settler," and. that it had nested in 

 your vicinity as far back as 1898, although none of the local 

 published records mentioned it except as a migrant, added 

 greatly to the interest in finding a nest of this beautiful 

 warbler in 1911 at Riverside. 



On the morning of July 2nd, the writer and a friend, by 

 the fortunate accident of a leaking canoe, were obliged to 

 land at the home of an acquaintance on the east bank of the 

 Des Plaines river at Riverside. 



After getting the necessary " first aid," we were shown 

 around the beautiful grounds with its fine native trees and 

 artistic river frontage. As a final attraction we were in- 

 vited to inspect a pavilion, the lower story of which served 

 as a boat-house, and to see an unusually located bird's nest. 



The pavilion was hung with Chinese lanterns each con- 

 taining an electric light bulb. In the only lantern having a 

 defective bulb a pair of small birds had built a nest. 



