80 BRIGHT FEATHERS. 
closely felted together by the tiny feet of the builder for the interior of 
the nest ; the coarser fibres forming its exterior frame work. The nest 
may sometimes be found in fruit or shade trees at considerable distance 
from the ground ; more frequently, however, in the low bushes, hedge- 
rows, and shrubbery of our gardens and fields, and the low-lying tangle 
of alder and willow along the banks of streams and other moist situa- 
tions. A nest before me taken from alow bush, about five feet from 
the ground, measures as follows: Total depth, two inches; largest out- 
side diameter, three inches; outside diameter across the top, two and 
one-fourth inches; diameter of cup, one and seven-eighths inches, and 
average depth of cup, one and three-fourths inches. This little home is 
composed principally of dried grasses and silvery filaments of weed stalks 
exteriorly. Its interior of vegetable down, woolly substances and a few 
horse-hairs. The edge of the cup, is finished with a neat firm sort of 
selvage of vegetable fibres and horse-hairs interwoven with each other. 
The upper edge of the nest from one point of view has a convex, from 
another point, (turned one-quarter around) a concave contour for its 
outline. It bulges slightly at its middle «height and conforms at the 
bottom to its supports. i 
The eggs of the Summer Warbler are of a dull grayish or greenish 
white, sometimes nearly pure white, indiscriminately dotted and marked 
with various shades of lilac and warm brown, the markings being chiefly 
disposed around the larger end. They measure from 0.64 to 0.69 in 
length, by 0.48 to 0.53 in breadth. A clutch of four from Sam's 
cabinet measures as follows: No. 1, 0.65 by 0.50 in. ; No. 2, 0.67 by 
0.52in.; No. 3, 0.69 by 0.51 in. ; No. 4, 0.66 by 0. 52 in. 
