WARBLERS 



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River. The next year I saw a pair near the same ravine, and 

 also a pair evidently engaged in rearing their young between 

 Athens and Hartland in Somerset County. The same year, in 

 June, I heard the song of this Warbler on a hillside in Farm- 

 ington, and located the nest which I presume was of this 

 species, but, try as I might, the female would slip from the 

 nest and glide, mouse-like, from my view and remain hidden, 

 so that with the limited time I had to remain I was not able 

 to identify the owner. This nest was placed in a dense growth 

 of raspberry bushes, weeds and ferns, in an old cutting, which 

 was well grown up to clumps of underbrush of maple, beech, 

 birch, hemlock and spruce. It was situated about six inches 

 from the ground, in a clump of vines, made up of very similar 

 material as the nest previously described by Mr. Spaulding, 

 and contained four incubated eggs. They somewhat resemble 

 the eggs of the Yellow-throat. 



On June 10, 1903, while driving from Athens to Hartland, 

 in Somerset County, I saw a male Mourning Warbler perched 

 on a limb of a tree, the same tree in which I had seen him in 

 the trip two weeks before. I drove my horse to a house near 

 by and left him and returned to look for the nest. I again 

 saw the male and heard his pleasing song. The locality was 

 a typical place for this Warbler to be nesting. After much 

 search through the underbrush and old raspberry vines, I 

 located the nest with four eggs in it. The female was on the 

 nest as I approached, and skulked off near the ground, only 

 giving me opportunity to catch a glance at her. I marked 

 the place carefully, and retired some distance from the place 

 and waited for her to return to the nest. After a considerable 

 time I stealthily approached the nest and placed my hat over 

 it and female, thus positively establishing her identity. 



The nest was quite a bulky affair and placed at the base of 

 a clump of coarse weed stocks about six inches from the ground. 

 The outer nest was of dry leaves and vine stalks. The nest 

 proper was made up with a thick outer wall of dead, coarse, 



