THE OOLOGIST 
it mingles with the mixed bunch of 
migrating warblers for a week or 
more then repairs to its breeding 
grounds. 
All the nests that I have ever seen 
were placed in hemlock trees usually 
on a horizontal limb over an opening, 
as a wood road or over the water in 
the gully but a few were in rather 
thick places and being placed among 
the thick leaves are easily overlook- 
ed. 
The nest is compact, deeply cupped 
and is composed of fine dead hemlock 
twigs and strips of bark, lined with 
fine dead grass, rootlets, fine strips 
of bark, hair and sometimes a few 
feathers. Attached to the outside are 
little bunches of yellowish wooly sub- 
stance and little fluffy bunches of 
spiders silk, 
All of. the following nests were 
found in these gullies: 
Nest> No. 1. The first nest that I 
ever found (June 1, 1903) was in a 
small, tall, spindling hemlock in a 
bunch of rudimentary limbs 30 ft from 
the ground against the body of the 
tree. It was in a rather dark place 
among a lot of large hemlocks and 
pines about 30 ft. back from the gully 
bank. I kicked the tree and the fe- 
male left the nest sailing away to a 
distant tree but came back bringing 
the male while I was at the nest. 
There were four eggs, incubation just 
begun. 
Nest No. 2. June 28, 1903. This 
was in the same gully as No. 1 and 
was in a medium sized hemlock 10 ft. 
up and 4 ft. from the body of the tree, 
in an open place or slanting. The fe- 
male was on the nest but left it when 
I began to climb and hopped about 
near by while I was at the nest, There 
were four eggs which must have 
hatched in about four or five days. 
One of the eggs was abnormal, be- 
ing very much elongated. 
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Nest No. 3. June 2, 1904. In a rath- 
er open place on the bank of Belknap 
Gully where a few tall spindling hem- 
locks (the large ones had been cut 
out) and in one of these which was 
about 3 in. in diameter I found a nest 
resting on a small bushy limb against 
the body of the tree about 16 ft. from 
the ground. While I was at the nest 
the female came so close that I could 
almost reach her, The nest was made 
of small hemlock twigs, lined with 
fine strips of inner bark, very fine 
dead grass and some horsehair. There 
were some bunches of the wooly sub- 
stance and a strip of birch bark at- 
tached to the outside of the nest and 
it contained 5 fresh eggs. 
Nest No. 4. June 5, 1904. This nest 
was at least 30 rods back from the gul- 
ly bank, on level ground and a few 
rods from the edge of some woods in 
a small hemlock 15 ft. up and 3 ft. 
out on a horizontal limb and contained 
4 eggs. 
Nest No. 5, Jume 11, 1904. A de- 
serted nest was 15 ft. up in a hemlock 
and 6 ft. out over a wood road. It 
contained one fresh egg, one egg with 
a hole in it and the shell of another 
ege. 
Nest No. 6, June 19, 1904. This was 
7 ft. out on a drooping branch of a 
good sized hemlock that grew out of 
the bank 15 ft. from the bottom of 
Chidsey Gully. It was 35 ft. above 
the gully bottom and contained 4 
fresh eggs. The female remained on 
the nest until I touched her with a 
stick then slipped off and remained 
near and did not make a bit of fuss. 
The eggs are about the handsomest of 
any of this species that I have ever 
seen, having a creamy white ground 
thickly blotched, spotted and specked 
around the larger end with dark chest- 
nut and lavender shell markings, the 
specks and a few spots extending 
over the rest of the egg. 
