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sized spruce, standing on the border of woods and clearing, contained six 

 fresh eggs. Both nest and eggs were very much like those described by 

 Dr. Merriam. 



On Jane 29, the third nest held five eggs, which seemed to be the complete 

 laying. This nest was about forty feet up, in a thick spruce, in a fairly 

 open spot in the woods, near a trail. Nest and eggs were much like the 

 second. 



The fourth nest held six fresh eggs on June 29. It was about forty feet 

 up, in a thick spruce, in fairly open woods. The material was the same 

 as in the first, with the addition of several dead pine needles in the exterior. 

 It measured 3j by 3| inches, outside diameter, 2 inches inside diameter, 

 2 inches outside depth, by If inches inside depth. The eggs measured 

 .67 X .53, .65 X .52, .68 X .53, .66 X .53, .67 X .53, .67 X .52. In color 

 they were much like the second and third sets, and the one described by 

 Dr. Merriam. 



It appears to be characteristic of many of these birds that the nest tree 

 selected is fairly openly sitaated, at least as to one side, although this is 

 not always the case, since other pairs watched were very evidently nesting 

 in trees where it was much more difficult to detect them. The extent to 

 which our experience in the case of the four nests located in 1918 agreed 

 with that of Dr. Merriam in 1916, tends to suggest that nesting conditions 

 as he found and described them are more typical of the Cape May Warbler 

 than those previously described, at least in the localities where we studied 

 them. 



Dendroica sestiva aestiva. Yellow Warbler. — One seen, June 

 13, 1917. 



Supplementary Notes. 



Notes on species treated in our previous paper are amplified by the 

 results of the past two seasons' work as follows: 



Gallinago delicata. Wilson's Snipe. — A nest with four eggs, well 

 advanced in incubation, was found on June 16, 1917, and with some diffi- 

 culty the bird was photographed from a crude and very imperfect blind 

 of cedar branches, despite almost continuous showers. Another nest 

 with four eggs, incubation one half or more, was found in the same bog, 

 June 12, 1918. Only the single pair of birds was positively ascertained 

 to inhabit this bog, and none were observed elsewhere in the region. 



JEgialitis meloda. Piping Plover. — In 1917 nesting had commenced 

 by May 28, when one nest with one egg and another with two eggs were 

 found. A total of twelve nests with full complements of four eggs each 

 were observed during the season. Nesting was already well under way 

 when we reached the locality on June 11, 1918, four nests with four eggs 

 each being observed that day, and twelve more with complete layings, 

 four eggs each, some well incubated, on June 13. A total of eighteen nests 

 with complete sets of eggs was noted during the season. 



