274 Puitiee AND BowonisuH, Birds of New Brunswick. pie 
fers and other brush. This nest would probably never have been located, 
but for the accident of the bird flushing right from our feet. The eggs of 
the two sets of four were very different in shape, being much rounder. A 
set measured .61 X .51, .61 X .51, .63 X .51, .68 X .50, and the nest 
measured, outside diameter 3.50 inches, inside diameter 2 < 1.50 inches, 
outside depth 2.50 inches, and inside 1.50. Another four measured .61 X 
.50, .62 x .50, .60 X .50, .62 X .50; and the nest, outside diameter 3 
3.25, inside diameter 1.75, outside depth 2.50, inside depth 1.50; all in inches. 
These eggs were heavily spotted with reddish brown and cinnamon, and 
the coloring is such as to give a pinkish cast to the eggs even when blown. 
The nests are typical and readily distinguishable from other ground nesting 
warblers of the region, being very bulky for such a small bird. 
In the case of the nest with five eggs, first found, the female continually 
returned to the nest with intruders close at hand, but others were rather 
more shy. The male was not noted about the site of occupied nests to any 
extent, in any instance. 
The song is compared by Minot to that of the Redstart or Yellow 
Warbler; is given by Nuttall as “‘ tsh-tshtsh-tshea ”’ and by Goss as ‘“‘ zee- 
zee-zee-see-e,”’ the latter being indorsed by Knight, who says, “ with a 
rising inflection on the last e.” 
Wilsonia canadensis. CaNnapA WARBLER.— Common and doubtless 
breeds. 
Setophaga ruticilla. Repstart.— Fairly common. Breeds. A nest 
was found building on June 28, 1915, and another just completed July 1. 
Two nests found just completed on June 8, 1916, contained four eggs each 
on the 17th. These were in willows at a height of about eight feet, in the 
same locality as the Philadelphia Vireos, while the 1915 nests were in good 
sized yellow birches in partially cleared woods. 
Nannus hiemalis hiemalis. Winter Wren.— A few noted. A pair 
were feeding large young, which were beginning to fly on July 1, 1915. 
Two of these young birds were caught and banded. 
Certhia familiaris americana. Brown Creeper.— A nest contain- 
ing young about a week old, was found June 22, 1916, under loose bark on a 
dead stub in damp and fairly heavy woods. The bark on which the nest 
rested had started to break away, requiring repairs on our part to obviate 
danger of the young birds being prematurely deprived of a home. 
Sitta canadensis. Rrp-spreastep NutTHatcH.— Common. Breeds. 
Penthestes atricapillus atricapillus. CxHickapEE.— Fairly common. 
A nest was found June 17, 1916, containing young. It was ina dead willow 
stub, only two and one half inches in diameter and five feet in height. 
Penthestes hudsonicus littoralis. AcapriaANn CHICcKADEE.— Fairly 
common. One seen carrying nesting material, June 7, 1916. On the 20th, 
a nest with young was found, about a foot above the ground in a stump, 
and on the 28rd, in a similar situation, a nest just completed. 
Regulus satrapa satrapa. GoLDEN-CROWNED KincLeT.— Very com- 
mon. Breeds. June 26, 1915, a nest was found, hung in the fronds of 
