292 Mousley, Birds of Hatley, Quebec. 



Auk 

 July 



what I missed in the Sandpipers by my change of residence, I more 

 than made up for in the Warblers, as my new hunting grounds fur- 

 nished me with two examples of the Tennessee, as well as a nest 

 and set of eggs of the Nashville and Blackburnian, the first two 

 birds being new to my list. An account of these will be found in 

 the annotated notes. As regards the nest of the Blackburnian 

 Warbler (the only one of the thirteen summer visitants remaining 

 so far unfound, see 'The Auk,' Vol. XXXIV, 1917, p. 190). I was 

 fortunate enough on June 8, to notice the female with building 

 material in her beak, fly direct to the site, which was a fir tree on 

 the outskirts of a small wood. At this date building operations 

 had only just commenced, and it was not until June 19, that the 

 nest held the full complement (usually four, sometimes five) of four 

 eggs, which, by the way, were the most brittle I have ever handled, 

 one collapsing as it was being lifted out of the nest, whilst two of the 

 remaining three could not be drilled with a true round hole, the 

 drill sinking into the shell immediately a little pressure was applied, 

 and thus causing a somewhat jagged edge. The ground color is 

 quite distinctive being of a bluish tint with somewhat ^old blotches 

 of rufous brown round the larger end, the average size of the set 

 being .70 X .49. 



The nest (which was presented in situ to the Victoria Memorial 

 Museum at Ottawa) was thirteen feet above the g ^und and placed 

 on a horizontal branch thirteen inches out from the trunk, and 

 twenty-one from the tip of the branch, and was composed out- 

 wardly of small fir twigs woven together and held by spider's silk, 

 the lining consisting of fine dry grasses, some usnea lichen, and a 

 few fine rootlets, the dimensions being, outside diameter 3|, inside 

 If inches. Outside depth 2, inside 1| inches. As regards the male 

 I do not think he does any building at all, as I never once saw him 

 at the nest, nor did he appear to accompany the female as was the 

 case with the Nashville, but I could generally hear him some little 

 distance off singing in the tree tops. 



Besides this I saw many Cape May Warblers in full breeding 

 plumage, a little tamarack tree on one occasion holding no less 

 than five males and one female, and later on in October, I obtained 

 my first fall record for the Yellow Palm Warbler and Woodcock. 

 Of the former I had only seen a very few examples in the spring, and 



