12 Anderson, Nesting of the Bohemian Waxwing. [jaif 



slender jack-pine (Pinus banksiana), about 45 feet from the ground. 

 The nest, however, was so artfully concealed and draped with 

 mosses that I could not be sure that it really was a nest until I 

 actually peered over the edge of it. 



The nest contained six eggs, which proved to be almost fresh; 

 incubation less than one day. Color: ground color, pale bluish 

 tending to ashy, with sparsely scattered small round black spots 

 and obscure pale purplish shell markings sparsely and irregularly 

 scattered over the whole surface, but chiefly on larger end. One 

 egg was much less spotted than the others, the markings almost 

 absent from the larger end. Size (millimetres): 23.5 X 18* 

 23.4 X 18; 24 X 17; 24 X 18; 23.5 X 17.7; 23.5 X 17.7. 



The nest measured 6^ inches in outside diameter, and 2 \ inside; 

 depth (outside) 3 inches, (inside) 1J inches; composed externally 

 of small, short, dead pine twigs loosely arranged and partially 

 covered with pale green moss, and small bunches of white cottony 

 vegetable fibres. The nest lining consisted of a few fine grasses, 

 a few bunches of fine wooly black moss, and bunches of the soft 

 white cotton. 



The tree containing the nest was at least twenty feet from any 

 other tree and had no limbs for at least twenty feet from the ground. 

 The nest was placed close to the body of the tree and supported by 

 two small nearly horizontal limbs and a few lateral supporting twigs 

 from these. The nest itself was fairly well covered with moss, 

 similar to that upon the branches of the tree, and the dark gray 

 irregular-shaped cones of the Banksman pine, lying closely against 

 the limbs, formed knobby bunches which made the nest appear 

 even more indistinct from the ground. The whole structure was in 

 such a position that it would scarcely be discovered without careful 

 search and the parent birds gave few clues to its whereabouts. 



