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site side of the tree, only a little lower down, but the birds were not 
disturbed. 
The Myrtle Warbler (Dendroica coronata) coming next, forms a 
specially interesting case. The species is a rare breeder here and 
I have only found the nest of one other pair of birds so far, and that 
was some distance from the present site, which was on the borders 
of a somewhat extensive wood. Here in asmall fir, three feet above 
the ground the first nest was found, only four yards away from 
the site of the previous year’s one, which contained four young 
birds when I found it. The second one being 24 yards to the south 
of it, also in a fir and three feet up, whilst the third was 64 yards 
likewise to the south and in a similar situation only six feet up, 
all three nests being close against the trunk, and fac-similies of 
one another as regards construction. The sets present many 
interesting features, the third one being not only the largest as 
regards dimensions, but also as regards the number of eggs, there 
being five instead of four as in the other two cases, a most unusual 
thing and quite contrary to what one would expect, although curi- 
ously enough my friend Mr. L. M. Terrill, writing in the ‘Ottawa 
Naturalist’ for November 1904, mentions the fact of his having 
come across a second set of this same species, in which the number 
of eggs was five as against four in the first set, the markings however 
being the same in both cases. All the eggs are zoned at the larger 
end, the rest of the surface being pretty free from markings of any 
kind, with the exception of one egg in each set (the last one laid 
as I was careful to note) which not content with being lightly 
blotched all over, is also the largest egg in each set, just as was the 
case in the last one laid of the third set of the Chestnut-sided 
Warbler. It is an interesting and curious fact and one which I am 
constantly coming across that the last egg laid of a set, often has 
some peculiarity about it, being different from the rest as regards 
either the ground color, markings, or size. After taking the third 
set the birds were not noticed again, but in the following year 
(1916), I came across a male in this same locality on June 21 and 
again on July 9, on which latter date it had food in its beak, so I 
concluded there were young about, but I failed to find any nest. 
The Veery (Hylocichla fuscescens fuscescens) is not plentiful here, so 
when a nest was found in a little willow swamp it seemed a suitable 
