118 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OP ALABAMA 



"April 25, 1893. No. 5 was seen building to-day, the 

 fifth day since she was discovered carrying material for 

 a nest. 



"April 27, 1893. No. 6 (D. dominica) . Another nest 

 of the yellow-throated warbler was found this morning. 

 She was seen entering a bunch of moss, and the nest was 

 thus located. Pellets of silk of cocoons and the web or 

 tents of certain larvae were gathered; the bird returning 

 every five or ten minutes with a wad of something white 

 in her mouth. She was found gathering this white sub- 

 stance from under the bark of pine trees. She pecked 

 from a small hole in the side of a pine as much of this 

 white substance as she could hold in her bill at one time, 

 and made a second visit to the same spot from which she 

 extracted as much building material a second time. She 

 was constructing her nest in the morning at 9 o'clock, 

 and on returning four hours after I found her still busily 

 employed. 



"No. 7. At Millwood a nest of D. dominica was found 

 on May 6th. The nest was on a limb ninety feet from 

 the ground, and three feet from the axis of the tree. 

 Three pairs of yellow-throated warblers were seen, and a 

 young one just out of the nest. 



"May 8, 1893 Nest No. 5 was examined today by 

 Asbury and found empty, although eighteen days had 

 elapsed since the bird was seen building. This was in a 

 bunch of Tillandsia about fifty feet from the ground, and 

 four feet from the trunk of the tree. 



"May 8, 1893. No. 6 was also examined by Asbury 

 and found to have the old bird apparently sitting. This 

 nest was building on the 27th; only eleven days have 

 passed since D. dominica No. 6 was found. 



"May 10, 1893. No. 6 was taken this morning; bird 

 seen building on the 27th of April; set complete. Bird 

 was allowed in this case thirteen days to build nest and 

 lay her set of eggs. This nest was concealed in bunch of 

 Tillandsia usneoides, thirty-five feet from the ground and 

 eleven feet from trunk of tree. The nest was supported 

 not only by the gray moss but also by the end of the limb 

 upon which grew the moss. It was very neatly and com- 

 pactly built. 



