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Yellow WAB.Bi.^n{Dendroica cestiva.) 

 Fairly common here, but not so abund- 

 ant a breeder in this town as in other 

 localities near by. Breeds very abund- 

 antly at Dead River and Androscoggin 

 Lake in the towns of Leeds and Wayne, 

 Me. See The Oologist, Feb., 1900, 

 pages 26, 27 and 28. 



Master Harold W. Philoon found a 

 beautiful nest of this species containing 

 four eggs, built in a pear tree at his 

 home in Livermore this past season. 



Nests early in June in this locality. 

 Eggs three to five in number; color, 

 greenish or bluish white, spotted with 

 black lilac and brownish, thickest at the 

 large end in the form of a wreath. 



The nest is very finely made and is 

 composed of plant stems, fine fibers and 

 grasses, and lined with soft plant down 

 and some times a few feathers. I have 

 never found them built over ten feet 

 from the ground, seldom more than two 

 or three, although I have found a large 

 number of them. 



Black-throated Blue Warbler 

 [DendroicaGcerulescens.) I consider this 

 species a very rare breeder in this local- 

 ity and have only one record of its nest- 

 ing in this town June 13, 1893. A nest 

 containing four slightly incubated eggs, 

 placed in a low bush about eighteen in- 

 ches from the ground, and composed of 

 nearly the same material as described 

 for this species in Davies' Nests and 

 Eggs of N. A. Birds, 4th edition. 



The color of the eggs is a greenish 

 white, very heavily blotched with red- 

 ish brown chestnut and hazel nearly 

 covering the entire surface at the large 

 end, a very beautiful set of eggs. 



Myrtle Warbler {Dendroica corona- 

 la.) This Warbler although not an 

 abundant breeder in this locality is not 

 rare here by any means, and I think is 

 far more plentiful than one would sup- 

 pose. I consider this species a common 

 summer resident and is found breeding 

 in coniferous growths of small pines at 

 a height of frora five to fifteen feet from 



the ground. Earliest nest found May 

 33d, latest June 15th. 



Eggs four or five in number; color, 

 white, spotted with reddish brown and 

 blotched with large patches of lilac, 

 mostly around the large end in the form 

 of a wreath. 



The nest is composed of fine twigs of 

 the hemlock and fir and fibers, and a 

 few dead grasses, and lined first with 

 soft grasses and lastly with a warm bed 

 of feathers from the Canadian Ruffed 

 Grouse [Bonasa umbellus togata.) 



Magnolia Warbler [Dendroica mac- 

 ulosa ) Very common breeder in this 

 locality. Have found many nests of 

 this species built in confirious growths 

 of pine, hemlock, fir and spruce at a 

 height of from two to ten feet from the 

 ground. 



Earliest nest found June 5th, latest 

 July 5th. 



Eggs three to five in number; color, 

 white, spotted, speckled and blotched 

 with brown hazel black and chestnut in 

 some nearly all at the large end, in 

 others over the entire surface. 



Nest composed of fine twigs and grass- 

 es and lined with fine black hair like 

 roots; it is made very flat and is very 

 loosely constructed. 



Chestnut-sided WARBLER(Z>encZroica 

 pennsylvanica.) Abundant throughout 

 its range and a very common breeder 

 in this locality. 



Its nest is commonly found built in 

 low bushes seldom more than two feet 

 from the ground in old bushy pastures. 



Earliest nest found June 3d, latest 

 June 27th. 



Eggs three or four in number; color, 

 white, spotted with brown, chestnut, 

 lilac and sometimes dots of blackish. 



Nest composed of bark, dead grasses, 

 weed stalks, plant down, etc.; lined 

 with fine grasses and horse hair, and is 

 generally loosely constructed, although 

 this is not always the case, for I have 

 found them finely made. 



Blacks DRNi AN Warbler [Dendroica 



