50 NESTS AND EGGS OF N. A. BIRDS. 



"Abundant in May and in the early part of Autumn. Arrives 

 May 1st. to 5th, and for two or three weeks is a common inhabi- 

 tant of the orchards and gardens, actively gleaning insects among 

 the unfolding leaves and blossoms of the fruit trees. Nearly all 

 go north, but a few retire to the woods and breed. During June, 

 1863, I frequently saw them in my excursions in the woods, often 

 three or four males in an hour's walk. *-••* 



I have found the nest of this species for two successive seasons, 

 as follows: 



May, 31, 1862, containing four freshly laid eggs. The nest was 

 placed on the ground, and sunken so that the top of the nest was 

 level Math the surface of the ground, and protected and completely 

 concealed above by the dead grass and weeds of the previous year. 

 It was composed of fine rootlets and dry grasses, lined with fine 

 dried grass and a few horse hairs, and covered exteriorly with a 

 species of fine green moss. The eggs were white, sprinkled with 

 light reddish-brown specks, most thickly near the larger end ; 

 longer diameter .60, and the shorter .50." — CoUES, Birds OF the 

 NoRTFiWEST, p. 51. 



86. HELMINTHOPHAGA CELATA. 



ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER. 



This species is found in North America at large, but chiefly the 

 Middle and Western Provinces. 



"A nest of the Orange-crowned Warbler taken June 12, i860, by 

 Mr. Kennicott, at Fort Resolution, Great Slave Lake, was built on 

 the ground, inside of a bank, among open bushes, and was much 

 hidden by dry leaves. It contained five eggs. This nest is built 

 outwardly of fibrous strips of bark, interiorly of fine grasses with- 

 out other lining. 



The eggs are very finely dotted all over — thickly about the larger 

 end, more sparsely elsewhere — with pale-brown. They measure 

 about 0.67 by 0.50." — CouEs, Birds of the Northwest, p. 53. 



86a. HELMINTHOPHAGA CELATA LUTESCENS. 



LUTESCENT WARBLER. * 



