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one the nest was set, held in place by being attached on one 

 side to the upright branches of the other." The nests, 

 quite similarly built, are " firm and compact, composed 

 outwardly of what appears to be the dry bark of the grape 

 vine, with a few twigs and roots. This is covered in many 

 places with a reddish-woolly substance, apparently the 

 outer covering of some species of cocoon. The inside is 

 composed of small black roots and hair." The eggs were 

 " ashy- white," or "with a slight tinge of green, spotted and 

 botched with brown and lilac around the larger end, and 

 somewhat speckled with the same over the entire surface, 

 averaging in size from .61 by .47 to .66 by .50." As in the 

 case of many of the rest of the Warblers, the female was 

 quite tame, and allowed the discoverer to approach quite 

 near the nest before she left it. 



Spending the winter south of the United States, or in 

 Florida, it has "been found as far north, in summer, as 

 Labrador. Its chief habitat, however, must be a little to 

 the westward, as the New England writers do not speak of 

 it as plentiful; Mr. Downes reports it rare about Halifax, 

 N. S., while Audubon saw none in Newfoundland, and " in 

 Labrador only a dead one, dry and shrivelled, deposited 

 like a mummy in the fissure of a rock." 



THE CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER. 



In a small maple in the edge of an open part of the woods 

 I spy one of my special favorites, the Chestnut-sided War- 

 bler (Dendrceca pennsylvanicd). Arriving during the second 

 week in May, keeping to the borders of open woods, 

 especially where thickets are adjoined, and not generally 

 aspiring very high, he is one of our common residents. 

 Some 5.50 inches long, with yellow crown, sometimes deli- 

 cately penciled with black; a ring of black slightly mixed 



