THE SUMMER WARBLER. 79 
“P. S.—His visits to the window became less frequent on the fourth 
day, but were continued with considerable frequency for about ten or 
twelve days, when the bird wholly disappeared, being caught, it is 
feared, by a neighbor's cat which had been observed lying in wait for it 
at the window on various occasions.—J. A. A.”—A#ulletin N. O. C., 
Vol. 1v, pp. 180 to 182, inc. 
The Summer Warbler is almost universally distributed throughout 
North America, and breeds in nearly every part of its extended range. 
It is a very common visitor in Central New York, and cannot fail to 
win the love and consideration of those who may feel disposed to culti- 
vate his agreeable acquaintance. Like all the members of the family to 
which he belongs, he is of inestimable benefit to the agriculturist and 
fruit-grower, and for this reason as well as for his note, should be en- 
couraged and harbored wherever he makes his appearance. His 
general character may be embodied in a certificate in which the follow- 
ing words should appear in italics. —Companionable, tnnocent, useful and 
sweet of voice. 
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hie NEST AND EGGS. 
The nest of the Summer Warbler, like that of the American Gold- 
finch, is very neat in structure and possessed of durability. The latter 
quality owes as much to the compactness with which it is built, as to the 
substances of which it is composed. The materials entering into its 
composition are generally of a very miscellaneous character, and in a 
sinele structure may. be found often, horse hairs, soft ravellings from 
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! clothes lines, wool and hempen fibres, sometimes silk if it has fallen in 
the way of.the artificer, a few feathers, grasses, or plumes of weeds, and 
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other vegetable down. The finer and softer substances mentioned, are 
