58 NESTS AND EGGS OF N. A. BIRDS. 



Mr. McCulIoch, of Halifax, gave Mr. Audubon a nest of this 

 bird with three eggs. The nest was formed externally of different 

 textures, lined with fine delicate strips of bark and a thick bed of 

 feathers and horse-hair. 



The eggs were small, conical, with a white ground spotted with 

 light red at the larger end 



The nest was in the small fork of a tree five feet from the 

 ground, and near a brook." — Baird, Brewer and Ridgeway's 

 N, A. Birds, Vol. i, pp. 238, 239. 



103. DENDRCECA DOMINICA. 



YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 



Habitat, Eastern Province of the United States, North to Wash- 

 ington and Cleveland. 



"Mr. Audubon describes the nest of this Warbler as very prettily 

 constructed, like ihe nests of any other of this genus, its outer parts 

 made of dry lichens and soft mosses, the inner of silky substances and 

 fibres of the Spanish moss. The eggs are said to be four in num- 

 ber, with a white ground-color and a few purple dots near the 

 larger end. He thinks they raise two broods in a season in Louis- 

 iana. These nesis are not pensile, but are placed on the horizontal 

 branch of the cypress, from twenty to fifty feet above the ground. 

 It closely resembles a knot or a tuft of moss, and therefore is not 

 easily discovered from below. •■•** 



Eggs supposed to be of this species, taken near Wilmington, N. 

 C, by Mr. Norwood Giles (16,199 Smith. Coll.), have a ground- 

 color of dull ashy-white, with a livid tinge. They are thickly 

 speckled, chiefly around the larger end, with irregular markings of 

 rufous, and fainter ones of lilac interspersed with a very few 

 minute specks of black. They are broadly ovate in form, and meas- 

 ure .70 by .55 of an inch." — Baird, Brewer and Ridgeway's N. 

 A. Birds, vol. i, pp., 242, 243. 



103a. DENDRCECA DOMINICA ALBILORA, 



WHITE-BROWED YELLOW-THROATED 

 WARBLER. ** 



