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of swampy land. The nest was not so near the ground 

 as the first, the top being ii| inches from it. It was 

 placed in a laurel." Though of the same material, 

 this latter nest was so constructed, that, "placed side 

 by side, the two nests bear very little resemblance." 

 The eggs are 3 to 5, creamy white, tinged when fresh 

 with rose-color, marked with a few scattering spots of 

 brownish, generally at the larger end, but often also 

 over the entire surface ; they are from 0.60 to 0.67 

 long, by 0.47 to 0.51 broad, and are laid the first of 

 June. 



CCERULEAN WARBLER. 

 DeNDRCECA CCERULEA ( Wils.) Bd. 



Chars. Above, azure -blue, with black streaks ; below, pure white, 

 with blue or blue-black streaks on the breast and sides ; wings 

 with two white cross-bars ; nearly all the tail-feathers with white 

 spots ; bill black ; feet dark. Female and young with the blue 

 impure, glossed over with greenish, the white similarly soiled 

 with yellowish ; a yellowish eye-ring and supraciliary line. A 

 small, very beautiful species, less than 5 inches long. 



This very daintily-colored Warbler is a rare sum- 

 mer visitant to southern New England only, being 

 apparently confined to the Carolinian Fauna, where, 

 doubtless, it will be found to breed occasionalh^ 



[The Coerulean Warbler was attributed to New 

 England by Linsley in 1843, having been observed 

 by that gentleman at Stratford, Conn., in April, 1841. 

 (See Am. Journ. Sci., xliv. No. 2, Apr., 1843, p. 257.) 

 Nothing appears to throw doubt upon this record. In 

 1868, I included the species among the birds of New 

 England, on the strength of the Connecticut instance, 



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