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thetic eyes of a sitting Tolmie. Her nest was a narrow affair, but very deep, 

 and its external had most evidently been built by dragging into the site a 

 number of long, large grass-stems. It was squeezed between the vertical 

 steins of a tiny rose bush beside a little aspen, one side being supported by 

 two or three shafts of equisetum. 



Without flinching, — save when the camera shutter clicked for the open- 

 ing of the exposure, — the dainty creature whom I had surprised upon her 

 eggs remained in place until the focusing for a second exposure was begun. 



NEST OF THE TOLMIE WARBLER IN WYOMING 



But she had endured enough. Silently she slunk away, yet in a moment 

 was talking to me, familiarly and near-by, as the camera did its work. 



Thorn bushes are favored haunts of the Tolmie Warbler. But once, 

 however, have I ever found a nest in a thorn bush. This nest, at two feet 

 high, contained four eggs of rarest beauty, while the bush, curiously enough, 

 was the very same from which I had shot a female for identification but 

 three weeks before. Troth, the male comforted himself full soon! 



The reader will infer, from what is written above, that the Warbler of 

 our study is found, in the indicated region, along the creek-watered canyons 



