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in a dense swamp, two feet above the ground, and contained 

 four pure white eggs, ahnost ready to be hatched. The second 

 nest J which was within one hundred yards of the first, was built 

 in a bunch of canes (Arundinaria tectd), and was supported by a 

 palmetto leaf. This nest was three feet above the ground, in a com- 

 paratively dry situation, and contained four pure white eggs in 

 an advanced stage of incubation. The females were incubating 

 when the nests were found, and I could scarcely realize that I 

 had at last found the nest and eggs of Bachman's Warbler, for 

 which I had looked in vain for nearly twenty-five years, in al- 

 most every swamp from the neighborhood of Charleston to the 

 Savannah River. Having carefully marked the nests, I searched 

 the swamp for others, but was unsuccessful that day. 



The two nests are similar, being constructed of fine grass, cane, 

 and other leaves, the latter skeletonized. The second nest, 

 taken April 17, is 6^ inches high, 6 inches wide, 2 inches wide 

 at rim, and 2 inches deep. It is composed almost entirely of 

 dead cane leaves, a little Spanish moss, and a few skeletonized 

 leaves. The eggs measure .60X.47, .61X.46, .62X.46, .61X.47. 

 This nest and four eggs is now in the collection of my friend Col. 

 John Eliot Thayer of Lancaster, Mass. 



Knowing that the birds would at once commence to build new 

 nests, I visited the place almost daily with the hope that I would 

 be successful in finding them; but in this I was mistaken, for 

 while it was comparatively easy to locate the singing males, it 

 was next to impossible to observe the females. In fact, the fe- 

 males were not observed except when they were feeding young 

 birds, and those were not the birds that I had deprived of their 

 nests and eggs. As far as I was able to determine, there were 

 but four or five pairs of these rare birds in the greater portion 

 of the swamp which I explored most thoroughly. 



On April 28, I found a nest containing one young bird, appar- 

 ently five or six days old, which I secured on May 9 while it was 

 being fed by its parents. This young bird could fly with ease, 

 although the tail was not half developed. The nest which con- 

 tained the young bird was built in a low bush about three feet 

 from the ground, in the densest part of the swamp, and was within 

 ten or twelve feet of the nest of a Swainson's Warbler con- 

 taining three eggs. This nest is large and bulky. The founda- 

 tion is composed of Spanish moss, with distinct layers of skele- 



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