110 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



"April 12. Parula still building in West Jones' woods 

 in the gum tree. 



"April 23. The parula warbler's nest discovered on 

 the 10th was examined this morning and found to con- 

 tain four eggs. On being frightened from the nest she 

 seemed much distressed, flying within a lew feet of the 

 tree and chirping loudly for so small a bird. She was 

 examined with a powerful field glass, making identifica- 

 tion positive. This parula was seen building her nest 

 on the 12th, two days after it was found ; allowing two 

 more days for its completion, I conclude that she has laid 

 her set of four eggs in nine or ten days. 



"April 24th. The parula warbler's nest discovered to 

 be building on the 10th was taken today and contained 

 four slightly incubated eggs. 



"Nest in a sweet gum, 20 ft. from the ground, and on 

 a horizontal limb four feet from the body of the tree. 



"The nest had a hole or entrance into the bunch of 

 moss just above its rim; it is suspended in the moss 

 without other support than the moss itself. 



"May 10th. This nest of the parula was in an elm 

 tree, forty-five feet from the ground and fifteen feet 

 from the body of the tree. It was found by Asbury on 

 the 28th of April. He saw the female carrying material 

 to build her nest. It was taken just 12 days after the 

 bird was seen building. This bird is probably the same 

 parula that was building first on April 10th, and whose 

 nest was taken on the 23rd, just thirteen days from the 

 time she was first seen building her nest. 



"Five days then elapsed from the taking of her nest 

 till the 28th, when she was again found building, and 

 from the 28th of April to the 10th of May, when the 

 second nest was taken, there had passed just twelve days 

 or not two weeks. Seventeen days, or not much over two 

 weeks, transpired between the taking of these two nests 

 of the parula, built I believe by the same bird. From 

 the time the first nest was first seen building 'till the 

 taking the second nest, there passed just thirty days 

 or one month. Then this bird built two nests and laid 

 two sets of eggs in thirty days or one month's time. In 



