Gbe Warbler 



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over the porch of a friend's house in Jamaica. The nest of the Ruby-throat- 

 ed Hummingbird is very beautiful and is constructed mainly of fine vegeta- 

 ble fiber and cobwebs artistically covered with lichens to make it look like 

 a moss-covered knot on a limb. I have in my collection a nest from South 

 Carolina made of a dark red fiber which I am unable to identify. This nest 

 is very beautiful, and though it contains a full set of eggs, it was evidently 

 not completed, as the limb on which it was built was not covered, being vis- 

 ible in the bottom of the nest. This also mystified me until one day last 



NEST AND EGGS OF THE RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD 



year at Gilroy, California, I found on a rose-bush a nest, with two eggs, of 

 Allen's Hummingbird, upon which the female was sitting. Every time she 

 was frightened from the nest, she returned with a bit of soft down in her 

 beak and after settling down upon the nest carefully tucked it away under 

 her body, thus showing that the work of lining the nest was being carried 

 on after incubation had begun. I have no doubt, therefore, that the lining 

 of the dark red nest referred to was to be completed during the sitting period. 



The Cedar Waxwingf 



(Anipilis cedrorum) 



THE Waxwing undoubtedly breeds in the Borough of Queens, City of New 

 York, though I have never actually seen an occupied nest within the 

 city limits. I give it a place among the birds breeding in New York City 



