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young at Fort Klamath, Oregon, on May 27, which would 

 mean that the set of eggs was completed about May 12. 

 Chapman (1888) records a nest containing four eggs at 

 Gainesville, Florida, on May 6. Dugmore (1902) states that 

 ^*The nest varies greatly in its construction and situation; 

 usually of weeds and coarse grasses, lined with hair*. . . . 

 Most nests are about three inches deep inside, but some that 

 are built like the orchard oriole's are much deeper." Baird, 

 Brewer, and Ridgway (1874) state that ''Mr. Maynard found 

 these nests placed in trees twenty feet from the ground. One 

 nest was built on a slender sapling at the distance of fourteen 

 feet from the ground. The nest was pensile, like that of the 

 Baltimore Oriole. It was woven of bleached eel-grass.'' 

 Further on appears the statement: ''So tenacious are they of 

 a selected locality, that I have known the same pair to build 

 three nests within as many weeks in the same bush, after 

 having been robbed twice. ... In New England these birds 

 have but one* brood in a season. Farther south they are 

 said to have three or more." Stockard (1905) gives the 

 limiting dates for nests as May 12 and June 27 in Mississippi, 

 with the height of the breeding time at about June 1. He also 

 records "eleven nests of the Redwing . . . found in a peach 

 orchard which was located one mile from the Mississippi River, 

 but the ground was dry and not at all marshy." Brewster (1905) 

 also records a nest in a vertical fork of a small apple tree. 

 Judd (1907) does not record the Redwings as nesting "until 

 the latter part of May or early in June" in Albany county, 

 N. Y. Peet (1908, Michigan) records the earliest nests with 

 completed sets of eggs on May 9. He states that "Two or 

 three broods are usually raised," and that "Sometimes as 

 many as a dozen nests are found within a space ten feet [!] 

 square." He writes that they "continue nesting through 

 June," but it is quite obvious that the time between May 9 

 and July 1 is too short for three broods. Cleaves (1910) 

 records a group of Redwings nesting in a daisy field after the 

 destruction of their former breeding ground in a near-by 

 marsh. 



* The italics are the present writer's. 



