130 NESTS AND EGGS OF BIRDS. 



hatch. The nest is a rather bulky structure, composed of twigs of sage-brush 

 and fine grass, and is lined with soft hair and large feathers. In general 

 shape it is flat and rather shallow, as the following dimensions show : Diam- 

 eter outside, four inches; diameter inside, three inches; depth, two and a half 

 inches outside and two inches inside. It was situated on the outer twigs of a 

 large pine-tree, five feet from the ground. . . . The nest was not fastened 

 in any crotch, but simply laid on a bunch of pine leaves, and was sheltered by 

 another bunch directly above it. On the 29th of June I found a second nest 

 containing four young a day or two old. This one was situated in the topmost 

 branches of a small fir-tree, about twenty-five feet from the ground. The nest 

 is essentially the same in structure as the one above described. On July 9 I 

 took young which had just left the nest. 



Minot reports a nest from the same locality "composed of 

 shreds and feathers with a few twigs without and hairs within, 

 built in a dead bare spruce tree, about 20 feet from the ground, 

 compressed between the trunk and a piece of bark ... so com- 

 pressed that the hollow measures 2| by if, and i^ inches deep." 



The eggs are greenish white, somewhat pointed, and touched at 

 the larger end with spots of neutral tint and reddish. They meas- 

 ure .75 by .55 of an inch. 



80. THE BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 



DENDRGECA BLACKBURNI^ {Gm.) Baird. 

 Hemlock "Warbler; Orange-throated "Warbler. 



This brilliantly liveried warbler is a visitor to the easiern United 

 States, the Canadas, and west to Kansas ; also Utah and New Mex- 

 ico. It has been recorded as breeding as far south as Massa- 

 chusetts and is asserted to do so in the Connecticut valley. It is 

 known to nestle in Maine, the White mountains, and in Michigan, 

 as well as Nova Scotia and its vicinity. 



A nest from Halifax is described by Audubon as found in a 

 small fork of a tree five or six feet from the ground. It was "com- 

 posed, externally of different textures, and lined with silky fibres 

 and thin delicate strips of fine bark, over which lay a thick bed of 



