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in a festoon of moss, and was a rather shabby affair composed of the fibres 

 of the moss, and grass stems, lined sparingly with fine dry grasses and root- 

 lets, and held four fresh eggs on May 2. This species, as well as the Yellow- • 

 throated Warbler, is dependent altogether on the Spanish moss for nesting 

 sites. I might add that although I searched many times for the nest of 

 the Yellow-throated Warbler in these oaks at Midway, as well as at other 

 places where moss abounds, I was unable to locate a single one. 



31. Dendroica discolor. Prairie Warbler.— Although the Prairie 

 Warbler breeds commonly in the scrub oak woodland and bushy pastures 

 in the interior of the county, I located but a single nest. It was placed 

 seven feet from the ground in a cedar in an open pasture, two miles south 

 of Hinesville. It was an unusually handsome specimen of bird architecture, 

 deeply cupped, composed of fine grass stems and plant down, lined with 

 hair, and contained three fresh eggs on May 12, I returned to the nest 

 two days later at which time it held four eggs. 



32. Wilsonia citrina. Hooded Warbler. — The Hooded is another 

 species of Wood Warbler whose nesting in the county is recorded in my 

 note book but once. This nest was located on May 4, and contained four 

 eggs well advanced in incubation. It was placed four feet from the ground 

 in canes growing in a dense swamp nine miles from Allenhurst, and within 

 one hundred feet of a tram road over which heavy log trains passed several 

 times daily. The nest was a dainty little home, woven of cane leaves, 

 weed stalks and bark strips, and was lined with fine rootlets, and secured 

 to the cane stalks with caterpillar silk. 



33. Icteria virens virens. Yellow-breasted Chat. — The nesting 

 of this secretive bird in the county has fallen under my observation but 

 once, and then only after a hard half hour search in a dense thicket of 

 blackberry briars three miles from Allenhurst, near a road between that 

 town and Hinesville. The nest was a bulky affair, placed three feet up 

 in the briars, and was composed of weed stalks, cane leaves, and several 

 strands of grapevine bark, lined with fine grasses. This nest was found 

 on May 16, and contained four eggs which must have been in an advanced 

 stage of incubation, for on revisiting the nest nine days later it held well- 

 feathered young. The Yellow-breasted Chat is common in the county, 

 and during the months of May and June, I have often observed their amus- 

 ing aerial acrobatic stunts. After the latter month, the birds become silent, 

 and are extremely shy and rarely observed. 



34. Mimus polyglottos polyglottos. Mockingbird. — The Mock- 

 ingbird breeds abundantly in orchards and shade trees in and around the 

 towns and settlements throughout the county. Between April 9 and July 

 16 I counted no less than twenty-four nests of this bird with eggs or young 

 in the towns of Allenhurst, Hinesville and Walthourville, besides several 

 nests in course of construction which were not revisited. One nest was 

 placed among a clump of vines screening the front porch of a residence at 

 Hinesville, and another was built in a small shrub in the front yard of a 

 house in the same town. The remaining nests were distributed among 



