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when I made a final visit to the locality and secured a number of 

 photographs of the nest and its surroundings and collected the 

 set for Mr. John Lewis Childs. This nest was abnormally 

 situated, being on the interlocked limbs of three very stunted 

 spruce shrubs which were growing in a clump, the distance of 

 the nest from the mossy surface of the bog being about a foot. 

 The nesting date was abnormally late for the species and the 

 nesting site abnormal, as all nests previously found by me 

 were imbedded in the moss. The nest was composed of fine 

 grasses and sedges, lined with fine material which appears to 

 be the fruiting stipes of some species of moss, and a few feathers. 

 The diameter of the nest outside was four inches and inside 

 across the top two inches; the height outside one and nine- 

 tenths and the depth of cavity inside one and four-tenths inches. 



On the twenty-second, during a pouring rain storm, I visited 

 the bog for the purpose of procuring a quantity of the various 

 species of orchids which grew profusely there, and on brushing 

 by this clump of bushes out flew a bird which I gave a passing 

 glance and pronounced (mentally) a young Yellow Palm 

 Warbler just able to fly, having already seen a dozen of Yel- 

 low Palm Warblers with their broods scattered through the 

 bog. For some reason or other I laid my box of flowers down 

 near the spot whence the bird had flown, and proceeded to 

 gather more flowers at other localities. Returning to the spot 

 to get my box after the lapse of half an hour or more, I was 

 much surprised to see the bird again appear from the same 

 spot and alighting this time in a near at hand tree it uttered 

 excited chippings which in Yellow Palm Warbler parlance is 

 equivalent to saying " nest at hand." A diligent search of 

 the surface of the moss around all the clump failed to reveal a 

 nest, and when about to give up disgusted, a glance into the 

 center of the clump of spruce revealed this abnormally situated 

 nest. 



I returned to the locality again the twenty-fifth, finding still 

 only two eggs, and was afforded ample opportunity to observe 



