NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 13 



one of the hemlocks a bird which I felt sure was of the same 

 species taken a few days before. From her manner I felt 

 she had a nest not far distant, and remembering how closely the 

 other allowed me to approach before leaving her eggs, I conclu- 

 ded that I must have passed very near the nest of this bird ; 

 therefore retracing my steps, and looking carefully among the 

 bushes I soon discovered the object of my search. Desiring 

 that there should be no mistake about the species, I at once 

 went home, and, taking my gun, returned to the place. Approach- 

 ing cautiously I discovered her on the nest. She permitted 

 me to approach very near, and then, like the other, dropped 

 suddenly from the nest, and flew into the same hemlock in 

 which I first found her. After securing my bird I took 

 the eggs, but to my regret found that incubation had proceeded 

 so far that it was impossible to save them. These — four in 

 number — were of a darker shade than the first set, but this was 

 evidently the result of incubation. They were also more spot- 

 ted, and the spots spread more generally over the entire surface 

 than in the other set. The nest was not so near the ground as 

 the first, the top being eleven and one half inches from it. It 

 was placed in a laurel, or more strictly speaking, in two laurels. 

 One of these lay horizontally in the fork of the other, and on 

 the horizontal one the nest was set, held in place by being at- 

 tached on one side to the upright branches of the other. It is 

 constructed of the same materials as the first, excepting the 

 woolly substance on the outside, of which there are only two 

 small pieces. External diameter, three and one half inches ; 

 internal, one and seven-eighths inches ; external depth, two 

 inches ; internal, one and three-eighths inches. 



As will be seen, by comparison, the nest is much more flat 

 than the first, the result, undoubtedly, of its different situation 

 on a horizontal branch, while the other being in a narrow triple 

 fork, was necessarily narrower and deeper. Placed side by side 

 the two nests bear very little resemblance, and would hardly be 

 suspected of belonging to the same species. 



