390 Moustey, Subsequent Nestings. four 
case, and the first set was taken, the second being found ten days 
later only 25 yards away from the first. Both nests were on the 
ground in tufts of grass in the center of little hammocks, and each 
contained a set of four eggs, identical in color, shape and size. 
After the loss of their second set the birds forsook the wood, and 
were not seen again. 
We now come to the Northern Parula Warbler (Compsothly pis 
americana usnee@) a rare summer as well as transient visitor here, 
in fact I have only seen four examples so far, the present pair in 
the summer of 1915, and an adult female and immature in the fall 
of 1916. The two exquisite little nests were located in a somewhat 
extensive wood where in a limited area long streamers of usnea 
lichen hang from a few fir trees, and it was in these that they were 
found, the first 35 feet, and the second 25 feet above the ground, 
both pensile and composed entirely of usnea lichen, and lined with a 
little plant down, the first containing a set of four pear-shaped eggs, 
and the second, one of three, the latter not only being less in num- 
ber, but also smaller in size, the spots however being rather more 
numerous, a little larger and forming a more decided zone at the 
larger end. They were also incubated about five days as near as 
I could tell, which would allow an interval of sixteen days between 
the sets, this time fitting in very well with that occupied in building 
the first nest and laying the four eggs, which was seventeen days, 
as I was fortunate enough in observing the birds on the day, or day 
after, the nest was commenced. After the second set was taken 
they disappeared and I never saw them again, nor did they return 
to the locality the following year. 
The first set of the next species, the White-throated Sparrow 
(Zonotrichia albicollis), was found very close to the site of the first 
nest of the Northern Parula Warbler, and from its surroundings 
did not seem to offer a very good case, in fact I should not have 
taken the set, had it not been for the large size and exceptional 
beauty of the eggs, the ground color of which, especially when 
fresh, being of a pronounced greenish blue, heavily blotched with 
rufous brown and black scrawling, the latter of a pronounced type 
for this species, in fact more like that of a Red-winged Blackbird, 
whilst the size is beyond the average. I consider this by far the 
rarest type in White-throated Sparrow’s eggs. After the taking of 
