BALES—Nest or BLACK AND WHITE WARBLERS. 55 
AN OHIO NEST OF THE BLACK AND WHITE 
WARBLER. 
BY B:. R. BALES, M. D., CIRCLEVILLE, OFIO-. 
It was while on a collecting trip in Hocking County, Ohio, 
on May 29th, 1910, that I discovered this rare Ohio set. A 
Ruffed Grouse had been flushed, and while searching for a 
possible nest, my companion called my attention to a small 
bird that he had flushed from the ground. I immediately rec- 
ognized it as a female Black and White Warbler(J/imotilta 
varia. In a few moments she flew to the base of a small sap- 
ling and disappeared. Close search soon revealed her upon 
the nest. I had a small stick in my hand and pushed it toward 
her to flush her from the nest; as the end of the stick almost 
touched her, she left the nest and hopped up and perched 
upon the stick, the other end of which I held in my hand. She 
would have been a model subject for the camera, but unfortu- 
nately, I did not have it along. 
The nest was sunk into a depression in the ground at the 
base of, and overhung by, the roots of a slender sapling grow- 
ing upon a steep hillside that was overgrown with under- 
brush and saplings, and was composed of dead leaves, strips 
of inner bark of some tree and slender strips of grape bark, 
nicely cupped and lined with hairs of raccoon and opossum. 
It contained five eggs that were advanced in incubation, in 
fact, they would have hatched in another day; in color they 
were creamy white, speckled and spotted and blotched with 
red-brown and lavendar. The markings form a wreath at 
the larger end; the deep shell markings of lavendar are very 
prominent at the larger end also. 
Incubation being so far advanced, it was difficult to save 
them, in fact, one was broken, two cracked and the other two 
chipped in blowing. 
The measurements in inches of the four eggs saved, are 
as follows:— .69x 49, 68x 49, 68x .49, .68 x .50. 
The fact that the eggs were almost at the point of hatch- 
