476 Mousley, Birds of H alley, Quebec. [o" t k 



It was situated in a small fir tree close against the trunk, nine 

 feet above the ground and three feet from the top of the tree, 

 and was composed outwardly of the above-mentioned coniferous 

 twigs as well as grasses, being lined inside with finer grasses and a 

 large quantity of very fine black rootlets. The site was only seven 

 yards from the center of a logging road, and although the nest 

 was in a somewhat exposed position it blended so well with its 

 natural surroundings that I was a long time in finding it. The 

 eggs, which were four in number, were also of a distinctive type and 

 different from any Warbler's eggs that I had hitherto found. 

 The ground color was bluish green spotted with brown, three of 

 them having confluent blotches at the larger end mixed with lilac, 

 while the fourth was nearly evenly marked all over, with no 

 decided zone at the larger end. The average dimensions of the 

 set are .65x.54, the short length as compared with the width 

 giving them a rather rotund appearance. The dimensions of the 

 nest irrespective of the spread of the coniferous twigs are as follows, 

 viz.: outside diameter 3§, inside 2| inches; outside depth 2|, 

 inside lj inches. Both the nest and set of eggs I presented to the 

 Victoria Memorial Museum at Ottawa. 



The locating of a pair of Cape May Warblers from June the 

 eleventh to the twenty-sixth, under circumstances which left no 

 doubt as to their breeding, was also another source of gratification, 

 while the nesting again of the little Northern Parula was no less 

 pleasing. A curious fact in connection with the Cape May and 

 Bay-breasted Warblers was, that I almost failed to detect them 

 during the migration, only one example of the former be ; ng noted 

 on May the fifteenth (the following up of which gave me my first 

 specimen of that glorious little orchid Calypso bulbosa) and one of 

 the latter on May the twenty-first, so that their subsequent breed- 

 ing was totally unexpected, and more especially so as I had never 

 seen either of them here before in the summer. 



Yellow Warblers were seen on several occasions, more especially 

 near Ayers Cliff, and the same remark applies equally well to the 

 Water Thrush (Sciurus. n. noveboracensis) . The almost entire 

 absence of Redstarts, at least on the ground over which I ranged, 

 seemed somewhat remarkable, and I did not see many pairs of 

 Chestntit-sided Warblers either. Nashvilles were certainlv not as 



