266 LIFE-HISTORIES OF BIRDS 



goid growth, woven together, with an excess of 

 slender vegetable fibres of Linum. Virginiana, 

 and L. usitatissimum occasionally interwrought 

 with vegetable wool plucked from Verbaseum 

 Thapsus. The interior is lined with a commingl- 

 ing of divers shreds of Taraxacum Dens-leonis 

 and Cirsmm neatly and cozily felted. It measures 

 two and a half inches in diametor, and the same in 

 height. The cavity is two inches wide at the rim 

 and the same in depth. 



Another nest which we have before us from 

 Union Co., Pa., distant i8o miles from the former 

 site, varies materially in size and in the composing 

 elements. It was placed when discovered between 

 two horizontal twigs joined at right angles to a 

 third, to which it was firmly attached by hempen 

 strings, and still further secured to a vertical twig 

 at right angles to the latter by similar cords. The 

 exterior is composed mainly of twisted and un- 

 twisted hempen strings of the color of tow, cotton 

 string, fine roots of grasses, spiders' webs, narrow- 

 shreds of lAnufn usitatissimum, neatly and com- 

 pactly felted together. The interior is lined widi 

 fine yellow rootlets and' an excess of white horse- 

 hair. It is hemispherical in shape with a diameter 

 and depth of three inches each. The cavity is two 

 inches wide at the rim and of equal depth. This 

 nest when found about the 15th of August con- 

 tained young birds. 



Still another nest which we have is somewhat 

 exceptional in its position. It rests upon a hori- 



