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Nests and Eggs. Nesis placed on the ground in thickets, composed 

 of leaves and grasses, lined with tiner grasses, rootlets, and horse hair. 

 Eggs, four or five, rarely six ; white, irregularly sprinkled, spotted, and 

 dotted with burnt umber, cinnamon, and lilac, often more thickly on the 

 larger end. Dimensions. .69 by .56. 



Gexekal Habits. Judging from piililished accounts 

 of the habits of this species, they do not differ gi-eatly from 

 those of the Connecticiit Warbler, for the bird is found in 

 swampy thickets, where it runs about on the ground, raising 

 and lowering its tail much as does the AYater Thrush. 



Brkp:dixCt Habits. The nests are built in the swamps 

 frequented by the birds, and the eggs are laid by the last Aveek 

 in ]V[ay. Sometimes the nest is hidden among the growing' 

 o-rass and weeds, but at other times it is placed among the 

 fallen leaves of the previous year, without other concealment. 



SoxG. Col. X. 8. Goss, in his Birds of Kansas, says, 

 " The song is loud and clear and resembles that of the Mary- 

 land Yellow-throat. '* 



oMiGRATiON AND Bkeedixg Raxge. The claiuis of the 

 Iventucky Warbler to a place in our fauna rests upon the fol- 

 lowing statements:- a specimen recorded by Dr. Holder as 

 havin«- been taken at Lvnn, Massachusetts, a number of years 

 ao-o, and said to be in the collection of the Lynn Natural His- 

 tory Society (see Maynard, Quart. Jour. Boston Zool. Soc, 

 Vol n, Xo. o, pp. 4.3-44) ; a specimen recorded by Messrs. 

 Howe and Sturtevant in their Catalogue of the Birds of 

 Rhode Island, 1899, page 81, as having been seen by Lieut. 

 Wirt Robinson neai- Fort Adams, Newport, in the spi'ing of 

 1890; a few instances of its occm-ence in southern Connecti- 

 cut. Breeds from eastern New York, Ncav Jersey, and Penn- 

 sylvania, west to Iowa, south to the Gulf of Mexico, Cen- 

 ti'al America, and northern Columbia. 



