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ee WiIpMANN, /fome of Bachman’s Warbler. 307 
when they leave the nest. As was afterwards found, these 
attacks occurred far from the nest and could therefore not only 
give noclew, but were rather misleading. The trees, which the 
singing bird frequented, were scattered over an area of two acres, 
and to look over two acres of blackberry brambles among a 
medley of half-decayed and lately-felled treetops, lying in pools of 
water, everything dripping wet with dew in the forenoon, and 
steaming under a broiling sun in the afternoon, is no pleasant 
job. At first it seemed easy enough to find the nests after 
locating the males, but this proved to be a mistake. 
Day after day I watched some of the males and searched the 
ground, but in vain. At last, on the morningjof the 13th, I saw 
the female of No. 1, slip down into a bush with a dry grassblade 
in the bill. Now it was comparatively easy to find the nest, but I 
was surprised to see it almost ready to receive the eggs and, 
without doubt, built during my presence on the grounds the last 
few days. Though many hours had been spent within a few rods 
of the nest the female was only seen once in the trees which the 
male frequented, when she was feeding for a few moments, picking 
small larvae from the underside of the leaves of Ostrya, hanging 
titmouse-like -at the edge of the leaf itself. When in the act of 
reaching overhead, the gray throat patch appeared with great 
distinctness. At g a.M.on the 14th, she was sitting on the nest 
and, when I returned an hour later, the first egg had been laid, 
an entirely white egg which contrasted strongly with the deep 
black rootlet-lining of the nest. On the next day, the 15th, the 
second egg was laid, and on the 16th, the third. She was still 
sitting on the nest in the afternoon and probably began brooding 
as soon as the third egg was laid. On the forenoon of the 17th, 
she was still sitting on three eggs, and when I found her again on 
the nest in the afternoon I considered the set of three eggs 
complete. At my approach she would not leave the nest until I 
could almost lay my hand upon her, when she quietly slipped out 
and disappeared behind the brambles. Only after she had begun 
brooding was she heard to complain with a very soft, hardly 
audible ¢s7g. The cup of the nest being deep, only the head of 
the sitting bird can be seen, but her yellow face is quite charac- 
teristic. It consists of a yellow frontlet, set off by a narrow 
