Vol 'f9i9 XVI ] Wayne, Nest and Eggs of Wayne's Warbler. 491 



fully but carefully examined and were found to be white or whitish, 

 speckled and spotted with brownish red and lilac in the form of a 

 wreath at the larger end. 



On April 28 I again visited the locality, and was accompanied 

 by two ladies, Miss Louise Petigru Ford of Aiken, S. C, and Miss 

 Marion J. Pellew of Washington, D. C, both of whom are enthu- 

 siastic students of ornithology, and acquainted with most of the 

 land birds found in the eastern United States. Our visit to the 

 swamp was with the hope of finding the female (whose eggs were 

 destroyed on April 21) in the act of building another nest, but 

 although this was partially accomplished, as far as seeing the bird 

 and watching her closely from tree to tree, she finally eluded us 

 and could not be found again. 



A very young bird just from the nest and unable to fly more than 

 a few feet was being fed by the male parent, which shows that the 

 birds breed irregularly. This young bird was collected (after about 

 twenty minutes deliberation) and proved to be a male. At last 

 I suggested to my companions to visit a spot about a mile and 

 a half from the place where the female had eluded us, as I had 

 seen a pair of the birds in question frequenting two magnolia 

 trees of large size in the densest portion of the swamp. Upon 

 arriving at the place and pointing out the magnolias to my friends, 

 my attention was arrested almost at once by a Warbler coming 

 from the northward of the magnolias, and which I soon identified, 

 as a female Dendroica virens wayytei. We kept our eyes riveted 

 upon her, each of us taking stands around the two magnolias 

 and thus encircling them. Miss Ford being on the southern side 

 of one of the trees saw the female go to her nest and informed me 

 of the fact at once. This nest was built near the extremity of a 

 very long, drooping magnolia limb, but on the horizontal portion of 

 it and about twenty-five feet above the ground. Near at hand, 

 about ten feet away, a very slender ash tree grew, whose topmost 

 branch reached the top of the nest on a level. I climbed this tree, 

 and with the aid of a long limb that I cut from the ash drew in the 

 limb and then attached it by two leather field-glass straps to the 

 sapling and abstracted the four heavily incubated eggs that the 

 nest contained. 



This nest was concealed from above by the large magnolia 



