376 NESTS AND EGGS OF 



from eight sets of the eggs in Mr. Norris' cabinet. The set containing 

 the smallest eggs was collected on the Island of Grand Manan, New 

 Brunswick, June 17, 1887. They offer the following measurements: 

 .60 x .49, .61 x .49, .61 x .49, .62 x .49 ; another, the largest eggs : .70 x 

 .48, .71 x .49, .69 x .50, .71 x .49. 



668. Dendroica townsendi (Nun*.) [108.] 



Towmsend's Warbler. 



Hab. Western North America (but chiefly near the Pacific coast), north to Sitka, east during the 

 migrations to the Rocky Mountain region; south in winter to Northern Central America. 



Townsend's Warbler is well known as a Pacific coast species. It 

 inhabits the pine regions, nesting similar to D. virens in coniferous 

 trees. The eggs are described as buffy- white, speckled and spotted 

 with reddish-brown, blackish and lilac-gray; average size, .64x .53. 



669. Dendroica oecidentalis (TOWNS.) [109.] 



Hermit 'Warbler. 



Hab. Western United States chiefly near the Pacific coast, east during migrations to the Rocky 

 Mountains; south in winter to Northern Central America. 



Two nests of the Western Warbler were found by C. A. Allen 

 during the season of 1886, in Blue Canon, California. The first con- 

 tained two eggs June 4, and was left for a full set. Three days after 

 it was found in a dilapidated condition and the eggs destroyed, evident- 

 ly the work of squirrels. The eggs, however, are described as resem- 

 bling those of the Yellow Warbler, D. (estiva, but were more heavily 

 marked. Another nest was found June 7, containing three young birds 

 and one was found seven or eight years previous also containing three 

 young. These nests were all similarly placed and well concealed in 

 "pitch pines" from twenty-five to forty feet above the ground on thick, 

 scraggy limbs, and very difficult to find. The cavity of the nest taken 

 June 7, 1886, measures 1.25 deep by 2.50 across; external diameter 

 4.50 by 2.00 in depth. It was composed of fibrous stalks of plants, 

 fine dead twigs, lichens, a little cotton twine, and is lined with soft 

 inner bark and hair. 



Captain Bendire has what he believes to be a set of the eggs of this 

 Warbler taken at Big Meadows, Oregon, on the banks of the Des 

 Chutes River near its head waters, June 12, 1882. The nest was placed 

 in the crotch of a willow overhanging the water, and the parent was 

 shot but fell in the water and was carried away. The eggs are de- 

 scribed as being about the size of those of D. cestiva, and resem- 

 ble the eggs of D. blackburnice, with the exception of the ground 

 color, the green of which is not as preceptible as in the eggs of black- 



