THE 
OOLOGIST 183 
No, 65—Nest and Eggs of American Coot. 
—Photo by Alex Walker of Armour, 8, D. 
Nesting of the White Throated 
Sparrow. 
The White Throated Sparrow is a 
common breeder in this locality, the 
nesting season extending from May 
20th to August 15th. During this per- 
iod fresh sets can be taken at any 
time, it having been definitely ascer- 
tained that the bird lays second sets. 
The first week in June appears to be 
the best time for the first laying and 
about June 15th for fresh sets of the 
second. The earliest nest was found 
on May 22nd, 1910, with four eggs and 
the latest on August 1st, 1909, with 
three fresh eggs. 
As is well known the W. T. Spar- 
row spends the summer mostly in 
lowlying evergreen woods—openings, 
“lanes,” or glades in damp _ cedar 
wocds being the favorite haunts of 
the species when nesting season sets 
in. In old winter wagon roads in 
these woods, where the grass is long 
and plants and vines of various ord- 
ers are strewn about on the ground, 
one is almost sure to locate a nest of 
this beautiful sparrow. The majority 
of the nests are usually placed on the 
ground or on grassy mounds in small 
openings or clearings; others are plac- 
ed a foot or two up in _ coniferous 
bushes cr in old brush heaps. If the 
bird is on the nest, she generally sits 
close until you are upon her and then 
you find the nest snugly placed and 
heavily built of moss, dead wood, bark, 
skeleton leaves, rootlets, etc., and 
lined with fine grasses and a _ few 
hairs. This appears to be the usual 
