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fruiting stipes of some species of moss, and a few feathers. The diameter 

 of the nest outside was four inches and inside across the top 2 inches ; the 

 height outside 1. 9 and the depth of cavity inside 1. 4 inches. 



On the 22ud during a pouring rain storm I visited the bog for the pur- 

 pose of procuring a quantity of the various species of orchids which grew pro- 

 fusely there, and on brushing by this clump of bushes out flew a bird which 

 I gave a passing glance and pronounced (mentally) a young Yellow Palm 

 Warbler just able to fly, having already seen a dozen of Yellow Palm Warb- 

 lers with their broods scattered through the bog. For some reason or other 

 I laid mv box of flowers down near the spot whence the bird had flown, and 

 proceeded to gather more flowers at other localities. Returning to the spot 

 to get my box after the lapse of half an hour or more, I was much surprised 

 to see the bird again appear from the same spot and alighting this time in a 

 near at hand tree it uttered excited chippings which in Yellow Palm Warb- 

 ler parlance is equivalent to saying " nest at hand." A diligent search of 

 the surface of the moss around all the clump failed to reveal a nest, and, when 

 about to give up disgusted a glance into the center of the clump of spruce 

 revealed this abnormally situated nest. 



I returned to the locality again the 25th, finding still only two eggs, 

 and was afforded ample opportunity to observe the parent bird engaged in 

 incubating, seeininglv oblivious of my presence. The next day I returned 

 again with my camera in a pouring rain and made a number of exposures 

 of the nest and its surroundings. It had been hoped that there would be 

 opportunitv to secure a view of the parent bird on the nest, but it was neces- 

 sary to cut away some of the foliage in order to give an unobstructed chance 

 to photograph the nest, and after such indignity the parent bird absolutely 

 refused to return and be photographed, though previously to my disturbing 

 the foliage I had been able to approach within a foot or two without driv- 

 ing the bird from the nest. The eggs measured .72 x .51 and .65 x .49 in- 

 ches. The larger egg seemed to be marked rather typically though slight- 

 ly larger in size than normal, the other egg was about average in size but 

 the markings were much more distributed over the surface and the spottings 

 heavier and more frequent on the smaller end portion of the egg than 

 normal. 



This makes a total of eight nests actually found in the Bangor Bog. 

 The actual number of individuals of this species nesting there each season 

 must be well up in the scores if not in the hundreds, as the bog in its en- 

 tirety covers a space of several square miles, a large portion of which is suita- 

 ble for the Yellow Palm Warblers to nest in and they are well distributed 

 throughout the bog. A description of the locality seems advisable as it will 

 be equally typical of hundreds of other similar spots in northern and east- 

 ern Maine where this species of Warbler has been observed during the sum- 



