272 Puitipp AND Bowopisu, Birds of New Brunswick. a 
four partly incubated eggs was found in the top of a tussock in a bog, under 
a little spruce, but not very well concealed, and another in a thick little 
spruce, bottom of nest fourteen inches above ground, containing four fresh 
eggs. On June 14 a nest was found in a pine grove where, in 1915, birds 
were noted, containing five young, several days old. It was on dry ground, 
under a little spruce. On June 15 a nest with four well incubated eggs was 
found in a tussock in a large bog. Another nest, containing four newly 
hatched young was found in a tussock in the same bog, June 19. A sixth 
nest, also containing small young, situated in a tussock in a bog, was found 
June 20. On June 21, in boggy ground, birds were observed feeding young 
out of the nest. On June 23 a deserted nest of this species was found in a 
tussock, well concealed by a small spruce growing over it, containing five 
eggs in which incubation had advanced prior to desertion. Slight decay 
of embryos had commenced. Though lacking parent birds, the identity 
of this nest, owing to composition and situation, was well established. The 
nest found in the spruce on June 9 was rather more substantial than most 
of the ground nests, though none were frail. It measured 3.50 X 1.75: 
inches in depth, and the same dimensions in diameter. It was composed of 
fine dead weed-stalks, strippings of dead weed bark and dead grasses, lined’ 
with the finest of same material, and with a few feathers worked into lining. 
The feathers in nest lining seem to be characteristic of this bird. A set of 
four eggs measure .74 X .55, .75 X .55, .73 X .55; .76 X .54, and the nest 
diameter outside 33 inches and inside 2 inches with a depth of 24 inches. 
outside and 2 inches inside. Another set of four measure .63 X .50, .67 X 
.52, .64 X .52, .65 & .50, and the nest, diameter outside 3 inches, inside 1.75: 
inches, outside depth 1.75 inches, inside depth 1.75 inches. A set of five 
measure .67 X .52, .67 X .52, .67 X .52, .66 X .52, .67 X .52, and the nest 
outside diameter 3 inches, inside 2 inches, outside depth 2.25 and inside 
depth 1.25inches. The eggs show little variation, and have a creamy white 
ground well spotted and blotched with brownish and lavender markings. 
The sitting Yellow Palm Warbler usually runs, mouse fashion, from the 
nest, while the intruder is still some feet distant, and it is with greatest diffi- 
culty and the most acute watching that this movement is detected soon 
enough to serve as a clue to the immediate whereabouts of the nest. The 
bird remains silent until well away from the nest, usually until the intruder 
has been in the vicinity for a few minutes, when it commonly begins a vig- 
orous chipping, the sharp, strong note characteristic of the species. The 
song is described in Knight’s ‘ Birds of Maine,’ as a “‘ characteristic whistled 
or warbled ’tsee, tsee, tsee, tsee, tsee, tsee,’ or ‘ peacie, peacie, peacie, peacie, 
peacie;’”’ which is doubtless as good a description as the present authors 
could attempt. At any rate, those familiar with it find it easily recogniz- 
able. 
Seiurus aurocapillus. Ovensirp.— Apparently not common. A 
very few noted on each visit. 
Seiurus noveboracensis noveboracensis. Water THrusH.— One 
noted June 25, 1915. 
