218 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES  [Proc. 4TH Serr. 
The first signs of nesting were seen on Chatham, in the 
Wreck Bay region, on January 25; when two or three were 
seen gathering nesting material. Two days later Mr. Hunter 
found a pair building a nest, while on the 29th Mr. Beck took 
a nest containing one fresh egg. This nest was nicely and 
symmetrically made of fine dry grass stems and fibres, a few 
cotton balls, and leaves of two or three different kinds. It 
was placed in a thick bunch of green limbs nine feet from 
the ground. 
The greatest number of eggs taken from any nest was 
three. On February 8 Mr. Beck obtained a nest high up on 
the mountain above Basso Point, on the northwest coast of 
Chatham. On February 9, near Sappho Cove, Chatham, I 
saw two or three fresh nests in the crotches of small slender 
bushes about seven feet above the ground. They were made 
of grass plastered on the outside with cotton and leaves. One 
female I found on an empty nest. When I intruded she 
stayed within two or three feet, constantly uttering short, quick 
notes; she seemed quite disturbed. 
On February 13, at Sappho Cove, Chatham, a nest with 
one fresh egg was taken. The nest was of the usual style, 
and placed seven feet from the ground in the branches of a 
small tree. It was composed largely of cotton balls, lined 
with fine rootlets and grass. On February 23, only old nests 
were found in the vicinity of Wreck Bay, Chatham. 
On Charles on February 28, I took a nest with two fresh 
eggs. The nest was small, compact, made of grass, and lined 
with cow or pig hair; it was 11 feet above the ground in a 
bush. Another nest taken March 2, contained one fresh egg; 
it was five feet above the ground in a small lemon tree, and 
was composed of grass and cotton balls. The owner tried to 
decoy the collector from her nest by feigning a wound. On 
March 5, this species was nesting at Villamil, Albemarle. On 
March 10, a very vertically-elongated nest composed chiefly of 
cotton balls was secured. On April 7, three fresh eggs were 
taken near Tagus Cove, Albemarle, the nest being in the top of 
a small tree in the flat country near the sea. It was composed 
about the same as usual, dry grass stems, cotton balls, and 
a lining of fine rootlets. April 13 and 14, only old nests 
were noted in the Banks Bay country, Albemarle. 
