NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 389 



.52, .65X.51, .66X.50; the fourth was broken. Mr. William Brewster 

 describes a nest and eggs of the Painted Redstart obtained by Mr. F. 

 Stephens in the Santa Rita Mountains.* The nest was under a pro- 

 jecting stone in a bank near a small stream. 



The three eggs which this nest contained were clear, dead white, 

 delicately spotted with light reddish-brown, the markings being sparse- 

 ly distributed over the surface and handsomely wreathed about the 

 larger end. They measure .64X.51, .64X.50, .66X.49. The average 

 size is .65 X .48. 



690. Cardellina rubrlfrons. (Giraud.) [131 ] 



Red-faced 'Warbler. 



Hab. Highlands of Northern Central America (Guatemala) and Mexico, north to Southern Arizona. 



The first knowledge we have concerning the nests and eggs of 

 this handsome Warbler is from specimens taken by Mr. W. W. Price on 

 May 31, 1888, in the pine regions of Southern Arizona — the Huachuca 

 Mountains. The nest was placed on sloping ground, in a slight 

 hollow, and contained four fresh eggs, and dissection of the female 

 showed that the full clutch had been laid. The nest was so well 

 hidden by a few sprays of columbine that it would have been over- 

 looked had the bird not been started directly from it. It was so loosely 

 built that it crumbled to fragments on being removed. The chief 

 substance was fine, fibrous weed stalks, while the lining consisted 

 of fine grass, rootlets, plant fibres and a few hairs. Skeleton leaves 

 and bits of fine bark were intermingled throughout the nest, and the 

 ground on which it was placed was so damp that the bottom part was 

 badly decayed. The eggs from this nest were presented by Mr. Price 

 to the National Museum Collection, at Washington, D. C, and are 

 described by Capt. Charles E. Bendire as ovate in shape ; their ground 

 color " a delicate creamy-white, spotted with small blotches of cinna- 

 mon-rufous and a few dots of heliotrope-purple and pale lavender. 

 These form a wreath around the larger end. They resemble the eggs 

 of Helminthophila Iucicb and H. Virginia; to a certain extent."t 



[694.] Motacilla alba. Linn. [69.] 



White W^agtail. 



Hab. Europe and Northern Asia; in winter, Northeastern Africa and Southern Asia. Accidental 

 in Greenland. 



The common White Wagtail of Europe claims a place in the 

 North American avifauna as an accidental visitant of Greenland. It 

 is found in all portions of Europe, and its favorite haunts are meadows 

 in the vicinity of water, villages and old houses. It nests on the 



* Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, VII, pp. 140-141. 

 t The Auk, V, pp. DS5-386. 



