30 NESTS AND EGGS OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



small twigs, lichens, slender rootlets and fine sedges, and lined with parti- 

 cles of grass. Hab. Eastern North America, west to Nebraska and Colorado; north to Greenland. 



102. Blackburnian Warbler — dendrceca blackburni^. Bluish-green, 

 spotted chiefly at the larger end with reddish-brown and lilac; the egg re- 

 sembles that of the Chestnut-sided Warbler; four in number and measure 

 .67 by .50. This, the most beautifully colored of all the warblers, breeds 

 in United States from New York northward. Nests have been found usu- 

 ally placed in thick hemlock or lofty pines, from twenty to eighty feet 

 from the ground. The nest is large and compact, consisting of a densely 

 woven mass of grasses, down of the cat-tail, lined with fine lichens, horse 

 hair, fur and feathers. 



Hab. Eastern North America, south to Mexico. Centraland South America to Ecuador. Utah. New 

 Mexico. 



103. ' Yellow throated Warbler — dendrceca dominica. Grayish-white, 

 with fine dottings of pale lilac and brown scattered thinly and evenly over 

 the entire surface, sometimes with a distinct ring around the larger end; 

 size .70 by .52. A nest taken near Wilmington, North Carolina, was en- 

 tirely hidden in a thick pendant tuft of Spanish moss; composed of the 

 same material and formed like those of the other dciidra'ca. Breeds in its 

 United States range at large. 



Hab. South Atlantic and Gulf States, north sometimes to Middle States. 



106. Golden-cheeked Warbler — dendrceca chrysoparia. Clear white, 

 evenly covered with fine but distinct spots of light reddish-brown, in some 

 so faint that the surface appears white; the eggs are said to resemble 

 faintly spotted examples of the Tufted Titmouse; their size is .75 by .57, 

 This bird has been found nesting in Comal County, Texas. The several 

 nests that were found were similar in construction, being built in the forks 

 of perpendicular limbs of the jHuipcrus virginiana, from ten to fifteen feet 

 from the ground. They were composed of the inner bark of this tree in- 

 terwoven with spider webs, in color resembling the bark of the tree in 

 which they were built. The nest resembles the average nest of the Black- 

 throated Green Warbler, but nearly double the size. 



Hab. Vera Paz, Guatemala; San Antonio and Medina River, Texas. 



107. Black-throated Green Warbler — dendrceca virens. Creamy- 

 white, blotched and dotted with reddish and purplish-brown, more numer- 

 out about larger end ; three or four, sometimes five in number, and aver- 

 age .67 by .54. Wherever there are tracts of coniferous trees, this War- 

 bler is almost sure to be found. It breeds in all the New England pineries, 

 usually placing its nest in a horizontal fork near the end of a bough, 

 from fifteen to fifty feet from the ground. It is composed of narrow strips 

 of thin bark, twigs, dry grasses, wool, feathers and plant down, generally 



