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THE OOLOGIST. 



We turned to retrace our steps back 

 to camp, when, from the leaves at my 

 feet, there ran a little bird with the ac- 

 tions of a mouse, and looking down, we 

 beheld the beautiful home of the Golden- 

 crowned Thrush, built among the grand 

 old hill^ of northern Maine. 



This species nests in this locality in 

 June. I have never found it nesting in 

 any other month of the year." 



The eggs are four or five in number, 

 usually five, and are too well known to 

 need any descriotion, as is also the nest. 



Maryland Yellow-throat {Oeoth- 

 lypis trichas ) Common breeder in this 

 locality. Have found many nests built 

 in bunches of grass or low bushes, and 

 sometimes on the ground at the foot of 

 a tussock of grass near or in swampy 

 localities. 



The nest is very hard to find by 

 watching the birds carrying nesting 

 material, and nearly all that I have 

 found was by flushing the bird from the 

 nest, which is very large and bulky for 

 so small a bird. 



Earliest nest found June 6th, latest 

 June 28th. 



Eggs three to five in number; color, 

 white, spotted and lined with brown 

 and black mostly at the large end, al- 

 though the rest of the egg is not un- 

 spotted. 



The nest is composed of dead leaves 

 and course grasses and lined with fine 

 dead grasses and horse hair. 



Canadian Warbler ( Wilsonia pusil- 

 la.) Rare breeder in this locality. Have 

 never found its nest. July 10th found 

 two pairs of these Warblers feeding 

 their young. It was in a low swampy 

 woods of fir, spruce and ash. The 

 young were hardly able to fly and were 

 easily caught and positively identified. 

 Next season I intend to find a nest of 

 this Warbler if careful search will re- 

 veal it. 



American Redstart [Setophoga ruti- 

 cilla.) Abundant breeder and a beauti- 

 ful bird and with tail spread like a fan 



they flit from tree top to tree top, re- 

 minding one of a huge butterfly in all 

 the brilliant colors of the rainbow. The 

 Redstart delights to nest in woods of 

 deep green foliage near running 

 streams. 



Earliest nest found June Ist, latest 

 June 25th. 



Eggs three or four in number; color, 

 white or greenish white, spotted with 

 brown and lilac over the entire surface, 

 thickest at the large end. 



Nest composed of fine fibers and bark 

 strips and spider webs; lined with 

 gras-es and horse hair. Built from five 

 to fifteen feet above the ground. 



In closing this paper I would say that 

 I consider the Warblers the most inter- 

 esting family of birds for the ornitholo- 

 gist to study, and in giving the descrip- 

 tion of the nests and eggs in this paper, 

 I have described specimens that are in 

 my own collection, and while it may 

 difl'er from the descriptions given by 

 others, it is correct in regard to the 

 specimen that I have examined. 



Hoping that more attention will be 

 given to the study and less to the de- 

 struction of our feathered friends, I re- 

 main oologicaly and ornithologicaly, 

 GuyH.Briggs, 

 Livermore, Maine. 



The Accipiter Cooperiniin Wayne and 

 Oakland Counties, Michigan. * 



Cooper's Hawk is a common summer 

 resident in both Wayne and Oakland 

 counties, being exceeded in abundance 

 only by the Red-shouldered [Buteo bore- 

 alis ) It is well known to the farmers 

 as the "chicken-hawk," and most farm- 

 er boys pride themselves upon the 

 number they have killed. It is the 

 most dashing and spirited of our sum- 

 mer hawks "becoming, however, like 

 most other hawks, commonest in Aug- 

 ust and September. Undoubtedly 

 more than 80 per cent of the depreda- 



