42 Embody, Bachman's Warbler Breeding in Kentucky. \_j& n . 



where I found a small bird sitting quietly on an elm branch about 

 fifteen feet up. A distinct black patch on the upper breast certi- 

 fied to its identity as a Bachman's Warbler. 



The next bird, I found in the top of a forty foot oak, sitting close 

 to a large horizontal limb. At times the song seemed to proceed 

 from the different trees round about but investigation invariably 

 showed the bird sitting motionless upon the same limb. 



It was while trying to locate the third bird that I brushed past 

 some bushes and heard a bird flutter to the ground. I looked 

 down in time to get a glimpse of a bird scurrying along the ground. 

 Unable to identify the bird accurately, or the nest with three white 

 eggs which occupied the same bush, I waited for her to return 

 when she was collected and found to be a female bachmani. 



The nest was woven into a tangle of cane and blackberry branches 

 about two feet from a slightly elevated bit of ground within a few 

 feet of a pool of stagnant water. Indeed, these black pools were 

 numerous throughout the swamp. 



Lined with a few hairs and some dark colored fibers, resembling 

 tendrils, and covered with several layers of dried leaves held firmly 

 in place by interwoven grasses and rootlets, this nest might have 

 been mistaken for that of the Indigo Bunting. 



The eggs measure as follows: .655 X .468, .643 X .468, .631 

 X .474 inches. 



The swamp may be characterized as a low bottom which receives 

 considerable back water during the early spring, but in May is 

 drained leaving only stagnant pools. The tulip tree, sweet and 

 black gums, sycamore, elm and various oaks occur in abundance. 



About a mile to the southeast is a second swamp, of three hun- 

 dred acres or more, bordering a creek of considerable size. This 

 was searched for warblers but fewer bachmani were found here 

 than in the first swamp. A solitary Prothonotary Warbler was 

 feeding in some bushes in the centre of a large pool, the only one 

 seen in Logan County. 



I counted fourteen male bachmani in the first swamp and but 

 eight males in the second swamp. 



