YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER 1S3 



on the limb, attached only to the limb itself or else laced to small twigs 

 as well." 



A nest described by M'Laughlin' from Statesville, N. C, was 

 similarly placed but was only nineteen feet from the ground. Nests 

 found by Wayne^, near Charleston, S. C, hcfwever, were placed in 

 bunches of Spanish moss {Tillandsia) in live-oak or gum trees at a 

 height of fifteen to fifty feet. 



Nest. — Brewster's^ nest "is composed externally of a few short 

 twigs and strips of bark bound together by Spanish moss {Tillandsia 

 usneoides) and silky down from plants. The lining consists of a few 

 hair-like filaments of moss and soft cottony vegetable down. The 

 whole structure is firmly and neatly compacted." Brimley* describes 

 the nest as "usually much like a Pine Warbler's in general character, 

 but lacks the black grapevine bark- which gives the latter such a dark 

 appearance, and is also usually compact, especially about the rim. The 

 materials of which it is composed are weed stems, strips of trumpet- 

 vine bark, fine grass and caterpillar silk ; the lining is of horse-hair or 

 feathers or both." 



Wayne^ describes his nests as "built of fine grass, weeds, snake- 

 skins, feathers, and lined with the flower of the moss; in one of the 

 nests there is a quantity of cotton." 



Eggs. — 4 or 5, very rarely 5. Ground color a dull greenish gray- 

 white, in a large series the peculiar color of the markings seem to tinge 

 the ground color ; the markings are very mixed, numerous under shell 

 marks, in the form of blotches and specks, of pale lavender and purplish 

 gray overlaid with heavier surface markings of wine-red, umber and 

 deeper shades of purplish gray and blackish. The heaviest markings 

 are at the larger end, which is sometimes well wreathed, with many 

 spots and specks over rest of &gg. Size ; average, .69X.52, extremes 

 measure .74X.55, .66X.51, .70X.56. (Figs. 67,68.) 



Nesting Dates. — Charleston, S. C, April 2 — a second brood late 

 in May. {Wayne) ; Raleigh, N. C, April 22-May 26 (C. W. C). 



Biographical References 



(i) Wm. Brewster, The Yellow-throated Warbler (in Georgia), Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, II, 1877, 102. (2) A. T. Wayne, Nesting of the Yellow- 

 throated Warbler (in So. Car.), Orn. and 061., XII, 1887, 169; XIII, 1888, 161. 

 (3) R. B. M'Laughlin, Nesting of the Yellow-throated Warbler (in Nor. 

 Car.), Orn. and 061., XII, 1887, 171. (4) C. S. Bkimley, Nesting of the Yel- 

 low-throated Warbler, at Raleigh, N. C, Orn. and 061., XIV, 1889, 151; Auk, 

 VII, 1890, 323. 



