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tained one egg. The nests were composed of small dead spruce 

 and fir twigs, lined with pine needles and peculiar black roots, 

 quite similar in some ways to a Magnolia Warbler's nest but 

 more bulky and less cupped. Other observers record nests as 

 being in trees fifteen to twenty feet up. Four eggs seem to 

 be the number laid but probably sometimes, however, they only 

 lay three and again may lay five. The egg in the University 

 of Maine collection is white, wreathed about the larger end 

 with reddish brown, and is accompanied by the nest. This 

 was collected by Robert Fernald, so Prof. Harvey informed 

 me, but no data accompanies the set nor is the extensive series 

 of nests and eggs of other species donated by Mr. Fernald 

 accompanied by any data save that all were collected near 

 Orono. His identifications are unquestionable, however. 



In northern Maine I have met with the species in the rather 

 swampy evergreen or mixed growth about the ponds and lakes 

 and judge these localities are their favorite haunts. Mr. 

 Maynard recorded the nests as being in the boughs of an ever- 

 green, usually a hemlock, from ten to twenty feet above the 

 ground and that four or five eggs were laid in northern New 

 Hampshire and Maine in the second week of June. The eggs 

 are stated to measure about 0.68 x 0.50, and are bluish green 

 with markings of brown and lilac, generally gathered in a ring 

 about the crown of the egg. (See Minot, L. & G. B'ds, p. 

 110-111 for transcript of the foregoing.) 



Davie records a nest found by W. L. Kells near Listowel, 

 Ontario. One nest was between the slender limb and the trunk 

 of a small cedar about five feet up; another was in a hemlock 

 at an elevation of fourteen feet. The nests are composed of 

 fine shreds of bark, small twigs, fibrous roots and pine hair; 

 the interior is a little more than two inches in diameter by 

 one in depth. The eggs are laid there in latter May or early 

 June and four is the usual number. They are white with a 

 bluish tinge, finely speckled around or on the larger end with 



