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104. DENDRCECA GRACL-E. 



GRACE'S WARBLER. - 



105. DENDRCECA NIGRESCENS. 



BLACK-THROATED GRAY WARBLER. * 



106. DENDRCECA CIIRYSOPARIA. 



GOLDEN-CHEEKED WARBLER. 



Mr. W. H. Werner, in writing to Wm. Brewster of several nests 

 of this rare Warbler, which he collected in Comal County, Texas, 

 states that the four nests that he had found ''were similar in con- 

 struction, and were built in forks of perpendicular limbs of the 

 Jtmiperus virginiana, from ten to eighteen feet from the ground. 

 The outside is composed of the inner bark of the above mentioned 

 tree, interspersed with spider-webs, well fastened to the limb, and 

 in color resembling the bark of the tree on which it is built, so 

 that from a little distance it is difficult to detect the nest." "I have 

 had the pleasure of examining two of the nests above referred to by 

 Mr. Werner. They are so nearly identical in every respect that one de- 

 scription will answer for both, and accordingly I will take for my type 

 a fine specimen which, with an adult male bird, Mr. Werner has gen- 

 erously contributed to my collection *-=•* It is placed in a nearly 

 upright fork of a red cedar, between two stout branches, to which it 

 is firmly attached. "■•••=■"-■• In general character and appearance it close- 

 ly resembles the average nest of the Black-throated Tlieen Warbler 

 [Dendrceca virens.) It is, however, of nearly double ihe size, in fact, 

 larger than any wood Warbler's nest (excepting perhaps that of D. 

 coronata) with which I am acquainted. It measures as follows : 

 External diameter, 3 50 ; external depth, 3.45 ; internal diameter, 

 1.60; internal depth 2.00." ■•■*-•• 



The eggs belonging with one of the nests found by Mr. Werner 

 are "of a regular but somewhat rounded-oval form ; their ground- 

 color is clear white. Two are thinly and evenly covered with fine 

 but distinct spots of light reddish-brown, while the third is so very 

 faintly marked with the same color that at a little distance it ap- 

 pears nearly immaculate. Their measurements as taken for me 

 by Mr. Werner, are, .75 by .57 ; .77 by .56 ; .76 by .58. In size 

 and general appearance they are unlike any Warbler's eggs that I 



