54 NESTS AND EGGS OF N. A. BIRDS. 



stances of its breeding South of the Canadas and Northern New 

 England ; but Mr. Allen notices its recurrence in Massachusetts 

 "in the breeding season." *** Audubon describes a nest from 

 Halifax, Nova Scotia, as being placed on the horizontal bough of a 

 fir, seven or eight feet from the ground, and composed of bark- 

 strips, mosses, and fibrous roots, lined with fine grass and a warm 

 bed of feathers. 



Eggs, four to five, rosy-white, sparsely sprinkled with reddish- 

 brown at the larger end." — Coues, Birds of the Northwest, 

 P- 56, 



95. DENDRCECA CORONATA. 



YELLOW-RUMP WARBLER. 



"The Yellow-rump lays four to six eggs, measuring about 

 .72 by .54 inches; they are white, spotted chiefly in a 

 wreath about the larger end, but also sparingly over the entire sur- 

 face, with various shades of brown, none, however, quite reddish, 

 but some nearly blackish, and with numerous other shell-markings 

 of neutral tint. A nest from the Yukon (June 7) is rather rude- 

 ly built of weed-stalks, grass stems, and rootlets, and warmly lined 

 throughout with feathers. Another from the Arctic Coast, east of 

 Anderson River, is entirely composed of soft vegetable fibre, with 

 a few grass-stems for lining ; it was built in a pine-tree, about six 

 feet from the ground. A third from Nova Scotia, laid on the hor- 

 izontal fork of a tree, is composed chiefly of very slender, stiff root- 

 lets and similar hard stems, and is much flatter than either of the 

 others." — Coues, Birds of the Northwest, p. 58. 



96. DENDRCECA AUDUBONI. 



AUDUBON'S WARBLER. 



"We are indebted to the late Mr. Hepburn for all the knowledge 

 we possess in reference to its nests, eggs and breeding-habits. He 

 procured their nests^and eggs in Vancouver's Island. They were 

 built in the forked branches of small shrubs. Around these 

 the materials of which they were built were strongly bound, and 

 to it the nests were thus securely fastened. They were quite long and, 

 large for the bird, being four inches in height, and three and a 

 half in diameter. The cavity is small, but deep. The external pe- 



