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flew to a neighboring bush, uttering a few chirps. Mr. Jones's 

 second nest was found June 13, about eighty rods away from the 

 former one, in shaded, swampy land. This bird also betrayed her 

 home by her actions, and, like the other, allowed a very near 

 approach before fleeing. Previously to this, John Burroughs had 

 taken the nest with young in a small hemlock near Roxbury, 

 Delaware county, N. Y., early in July. Here, the parents at first 

 exhil:)ited great, though cautious, alarm, but upon the jumping out 

 of the young, the distracted pair fairly threw themselves under 

 Mr. Burroughs's feet. With the four (or five) fledglings in the nest 

 was also one fresh egg, which Dr. Brewer describes as oval, not 

 pointed, pinkish-white, and marked round the larger end with a 

 wreath, chiefly of a bright umber-brown with lighter markings of 

 reddish-brown and obscure purple ; a few smaller dottings of the 

 same are sparingly distributed over the rest of the egg ; its meas- 

 urements are .70 by .50 of an inch. Other nests found in north- 

 ern New York agree with these in all particulars. 



77. THE C-ffiRULEAN" WARBLER. 



DENDROiCA C.-ERULEA {Wils.) Bp. 



Cerulean Wood-'Warbler, Azure "Warbler, Blue-green "Warbler, "White- 

 throated Blue "Warbler. 



The summer range of this brilliant species includes the United 

 States east of Colorado ; but it may be said scarcely or never to 

 enter New England, and rarely to go north even to Lower Canada, 

 although breeding from Niagara Falls westward. Its principal 

 resort seems to be the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio, through- 

 out all but the lower parts of which it breeds in considerable num- 

 bers. It is reported from Connecticut (Sufifield, June 12, 1875) by 

 H. A. Purdie during the breeding season, but no nest has been 

 taken there yet. In the Bulletin of the Nuttall Club for January-, 

 1879, Mr. J. A. Allen has written a very succinct account of the 

 nidification of this species, to which I am unable to add anything 

 of value. 



