110 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 
“April 12. Parula still building in West Jones’ woods 
in the gum tree. 
“April 23. The parula warbler’s nest discovered on 
the 10th was examined this morning and found to con- 
tain four eggs. On being frightened from the nest she 
seemed much distressed, flying within a iew feet of the 
tree and chirping loudly for so small a bird. She was 
examined with a powerful field glass, making identifica- 
tion positive. This parula was seen building her nest 
on the 12th, two days after it was found; allowing two 
more days for its completion, I conclude that she has laid 
her set of four eggs in nine or ten days. 
“April 24th. The parula warbler’s nest discovered to 
be building on the 10th was taken today and contained 
four slightly incubated eggs. 
“Nest in a sweet gum, 20 ft. from the ground, and on 
a horizontal limb four feet from the body of the tree. 
“The nest had a hole or entrance into the bunch of 
moss just above its rim; it is suspended in the moss 
without other support than the moss itself. 
“May 10th. This nest of the parula was in an elm 
tree, forty-five feet from the ground and fifteen feet 
from the body of the tree. It was found by Asbury on 
the 28th of April. He saw the female carrying material 
to build her nest. It was taken just 12 days after the 
bird was seen building. This bird is probably the same 
parula that was building first on April 10th, and whose 
nest was taken on the 23rd, just thirteen days from the 
time she was first seen building her nest. 
“Five days then elapsed from the taking of her nest 
till the 28th, when she was again found building, and 
from the 28th of April to the 10th of May, when the 
second nest was taken, there had passed just twelve days 
or not two weeks. Seventeen days, or not much over two 
weeks, transpired between the taking of these two nests 
of the parula, built I believe by the same bird. From 
the time the first nest was first seen building ’till the 
taking the second nest, there passed just thirty days 
or one month. Then this bird built two nests and laid 
two sets of eggs in thirty days or one month’s time. In 
