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riphery of the nest is made of coarse strips of bark, long dry leaves 

 of wild grasses, and strong stalks of plants, intermingled with 

 liner grasses, pieces of cotton cloth, and other materials. The in- 

 ner nest is also a singular combination of various materials, yet care- 

 fully and elaborately put together. It^is made up of fine grasses, 

 feathers, lichens, mosses, fine roots, etc., all felted together and 

 lined with a warm bedding of fur and feathers. ***" 



The eggs of the Audubon Warbler do not resemble those of 

 any Dendroica with which I am acquainted, but are most like 

 those of the Hooded Warbler. They measure .70 by .50 of an 

 inch, have a reddish or a pinkish-white ground, and are sparingly 

 marked with fine brown markings, tinted with a crimson shading." — 

 Baird, Brewer and Ridgeway's N, A. Birds, vol. i, pp. 231, 232. 



97. dendrceca maculosa. 

 BLACK-AND YELLOW WARBLER. 



Habitat, Eastern North America ; in summer, New England to 

 Hudson's Bay. 



"Mr. C J. Maynard has given us an excellent account of the 

 nest and eggs of this species A nest, taken the second week in 

 June 1870^ at Umbagog, "was placed on the forked branch of a 

 low spruce, about three feet from the ground, on a rising piece of 

 land, leading from a wood-path. The nest, which contained four 

 eggs, was constructed of dry grass, spruce twigs, roots, etc., and 

 was lined with fine black roots, the whole being a coarse structure 

 for so dainty looking a warbler. The eggs were more spherical 

 than any Warbler's I have ever seen. The ground-color is a 

 creamy-white, blotchefl sparingly over with large spots of lilac and 

 umber." The dimensions of these eggs were: o 62 by o 52, 0.61 

 by 0.52,0.62 by 0.50, 0.63 by 0.52 (hundredths of the inch.) — CouES, 

 Birds of the Northwest, p. 63. 



98. dendrceca c^erulea. 



CERULEAN WARBLER 



•'This Warbler appears in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and Mis- 

 souri early in May. 



Mr. Audubon states that he found it numerous in Louisiana. 



