



NEST (After Audubon). 



masterpiece of workmanship, which, with its bill, it weaves and suspends like a 

 hammock from the drooping bough of an elm or sycamore, in dense foliage. The 

 nest Is penBlle and nearly a cylindrical pouch, suspended from the extremity of a 

 branch. The distance from the ground varies from four to seventy feet. Any sub- 

 tance combining the proper length, thickness and strength is used in tho const ruc- 

 tion of its nest, consequently the materials depend to a great extent upon the locality 

 long grasses, strips of bark, vegetable fibres, yarns, wrapping twine, horse and cow 

 hairs, rags, paper and other substances that are readily accessible. The nest repre- 

 sented In our Illustration is taken, from a lypn -al specimen which I took from the 

 branches of a sycamore in Franklin < -minty. Ohio, May 23, 1884; other specimens in 

 my collection are not so elaborately mado. Tho nmnl.or of eggs laid ranjrcs from 

 four to six. Tho ground-color is whito. with a slight roseate tinge win n fresh, fa. I 

 Ing into a bluish tint wtuTi Mown, marked with Motches, lines, scrawls, and tin- 

 to eggs of this genus, irregularly distributed over t!u 

 surface, usually thickest about the larger end, forming a wreath. A set of five 



