6o NESTS AND EGGS OF N. A. BIRDS. 



have ever seen, and most closely resemble faintly spotted examples 

 of those of the Tufted Titmouse."t 



107. DENDRCECA VIRENS. 



BLACK-TROATED GREEN WARBLER. 



This Warbler is found throughout the Eastern Province of the 

 United States. 



''Several nests of this bird given me by Mr. George O. Welch, of 

 Lynn (Mass.) , have been found by him in high trees in thick woods, on 

 the western borders of that citv. They are all small, snug, compact 

 structures, built on a base of tine strips of bark, bits of leaves, and 

 stems of plants. The upper rims are a circular intertwining of fine 

 slender twigs, interwoven with a few fine stems of the most deli- 

 cate^grasses. The inner portions of these nests are very softly and 

 warmly bedded with the fine down and silky stems of plants. 

 They have a diameter of three and a quarter inches, and a height 

 of one and a half. The cavity is two inches in diameter, and one 

 and a half in depth. 



The eggs measure .70 by .50 of an inch, have a white or purplish- 

 white ground, and are blotched and dotted with markings of red- 

 dish and purplish-brown, diffused over the entire egg, but more 

 numerous about the larger end. One end is much more pointed 

 than the other." — Baird, Brewer and Kidgeway's N. A. Birds, 

 vol. I, p. 264. 



108. DENDRCECA TOWNSENDI. 



TOWNSEND'S WARBLER. ** 



109. DENDRCECA OCCIDENTALIS. 



HERMIT WARBLER. ** 



no, DENDRCECA KIRTLANDI. 



KIRTLAND'S WARLER. ** 



T William Brewster, on certain rare fcirds in Texas: Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, April, 1879, pp. 

 77, T8. 



