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eight feet from the ground and about ten feet from the trunk. Black- 

 burn's Warbler has been found breeding in Southern Michigan, where 

 nests have been taken in pine trees at an elevation of forty feet. In 

 all cases the nests are placed high in hemlocks or pines, which are the 

 bird's favorite resorts. Mr. J. W. Preston met with the Blackburnian 

 Warbler breeding in the hemlock and spruce regions of Northern 

 Minnesota. One nest was found placed against the trunk and upon a 

 small branch which grew from the tree at a height of twenty feet; 

 another was built in the fork of a horizontal branch near the end, five 

 feet from the trunk and thirty feet from the ground. One nest con- 

 tained two, the other three eggs, and in each was a Cowbird's egg. 

 From all accounts the nests of this species are elegantly and compactly 

 made, consisting of a densely woven mass of spruce twigs, soft vege- 

 table down, rootlets and fine shreds of bark ; the lining is often inter- 

 mixed with horse hairs and feathers. 



The full complement of eggs is four, and they are described as 

 greenish-white or very pale bluish-green, speckled or spotted, chiefly 

 around the larger end, with brown or reddish-brown and lilac-gray ; 

 average size .69X.50. The sizes of the set taken by Dr. Merriam are 

 .69 X .50, .70 X .45, .71 X .49, .69 X .50, respectively. 



663. Dendroica dominica (Linn) [103.] 



Yello-wr-throated "Warbler. 



Hab. South Atlantic States north along the sea coast regularly to Maryland; casually to New 

 York, Massachusetts, etc., south to the West Indies. 



The Yellow-throated Warbler breeds commonly in the South 

 Atlantic States, in some portions of which it is resident throughout 

 the year. The nest is placed on branches of pine trees, usually at a 

 considerable elevation. It is also not infrequently built in the pendu- 

 lous tufts of Spanish moss, which grows abundantly on the live oaks 

 and other trees. Mr. William Brewster found a nest of this species in 

 Camden county, Georgia, May 2, which was placed at a height of thirty- 

 five feet from the ground, on the stout, horizontal branch of a Southern 

 pine, in a thinly scattered grove. The nest was set flatly on the limb — 

 not saddled to it — nearly midway between the juncture with the main 

 trunk and the extremity of the twigs, and was attached to the rough 

 bark by silky fibres. It is composed of short twigs, strips of bark, 

 bound together with Spanish moss and silky down ; the lining is soft, 

 hair-like vegetable down. Mr. Arthur T. Wayne obtained nests and 

 eggs of this Warbler in the mixed woods near Charleston, South Car- 

 olina. The nests were found built in the tufts of tree moss, and lined 

 with feathers. The heights range from thirty to about forty feet above 



