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As I approached it the female slid over the side of it into 

 the sedges and cat-tails, skulking along on the ground like 

 a mouse; but, as she crossed an open ditch, she paused to 

 look at me a few moments, and thus gave me the opportu- 

 nity of recognition. 



A nest from Nova Scotia, now before me, was taken from 

 a tuft of tall marsh-grass, and is altogether of fine dried 

 grasses. Neatly cup-shaped, its walls are thick and com- 

 pactly laid, and through the bottom it is deep and dense. 

 From the points and angles of dried grasses leaning in 

 almost every direction around its edge, it is of the same 

 picket-fence style as the one above described, and the eggs 

 are similar. 



This bird seems confined to Eastern North America, 

 breeding from the Middle States to Labrador, and winter- 

 ing in the Southern States. It is quite shy and retiring, its 

 residence being strictly confined to the swamps and their 

 marshy vicinity, where it raises two broods in a season. I 

 found it very abundant among the sedges and tall grasses of 

 the flooded mashes of St. .Clair Flats. 



THE YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER. 



On the 22d of April, as I paddle a light boat along the 

 meandering course of a stream of glassy smoothness in Tona- 

 wanda Swamp, in the shrubs and bushes, which are densely 

 thick along its margin and form a belt between either side 

 of the stream and the tall forests in the immediate vicinity, 

 I spy a Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendrceca coronata). It is a 

 fine male flitting leisurely about ; the movement of this species 

 being always rather slow and dignified for one of its kind. 



About 5.50 long, he is of a fine ash or slate color, 

 streaked with black; line over the eye, lower eye-lid, throat, 

 wing-bars, spots in the outer tail-feathers and belly, white; 



