AVERY BIRD COLLECTION 115 
usnecides (‘gray moss’), suspended from a bough of the 
water oak (Quercus aquatica). This nest is about fifteen 
feet from the ground. The male was heard singing 
about a hundred yards from the tree in which his mate 
had begun nidification. After some search for his quiet 
partner, she was found on a sweet gum (Liquidambar 
styraciflua). She flew from this into a water oak. 
There also was another bird. I turned my field glass up- 
on both; the identity of the yellow-throated warbler was 
positive. Asbury was enjoined to watch her, while the 
other bird was examined and found to be V. flavifrons. 
While this bird was examined by me, Asbury whispered 
to me, as he sank on his knees to the ground, ‘Sit down, 
Doctor.’ I did so, and at the same time the yellow- 
throated warbler was seen flitting about a streamer of 
gray moss. She lingered a few seconds around it, entered 
it, emerged suddenly, and flew away. She soon returned, 
however, with a straw in her mouth. Again she entered 
the moss, again quickly came forth, but this time she was 
gone ten minutes, or more perhaps. While we were 
thinking of approaching the moss to examine closely the 
site of her secret, she returned and disappeared, with the 
material gathered, by the opening which she had before 
entered. There could be no doubt as to what she was 
doing. Another and another time she came and went, 
and the field glass revealed the outline of the nest and 
the movements of the busy builder could be seen within, 
as she moulded the material and wove it into her swinging 
domicile. 
“The male was nowhere to be seen or heard though not 
long before he was making the woods ring with his cheer- 
ful notes. This song is louder and far more musical than 
that of the pine warbler, in fact the efforts of the latter 
cannot be called music. 
“The yellow-throated warbler is a summer resident of 
Hale County. He arrives from his winter home from 
the first to the twelfth of March. The latter date was 
that of the first song of this bird heard by me this season. 
It seems now—the 4th of April—to be building, as the 
observations made by me this spring lead me to believe. 
