120 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ALABAMA 



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pine about fifteen feet from the ground ; saw female pine 

 creeper fly into the tree with material for her nest." 



April 1, 1888, a set of three eggs was collected, near 

 Greensboro, from a nest on a horizontal limb of a pine, 

 twenty feet from the ground. 



April 29, 1891, the Doctor observed a pine warbler 

 feeding its young. 



The following nesting notes are taken from the Doc- 

 tor's original journal: 



"March 24, 1893. Took a nest of a pine warbler, on 

 the horizontal branch of a pine tree (pirms mitis) at 9 

 feet 10 inches from the axis of the tree, and 13 feet 41/2 

 inches from the ground. The bird was discovered build- 

 ing her nest on the 9th of March. It was completed about 

 the 12th. The last egg was laid on the 24th. The nest 

 was attached to and in the fork of a horizontal branch. 

 It was built of pine needles and strips of bark, and lined 

 with feathers and hair. This bird had built her nest by 

 the 12th ; she was seen building it for three or four days. 

 She began nidification on the 8th (or about that time) 

 and the nest was finished in about four days. 



"To-day, the 4th of April (1893), while making obser- 

 vations on the yellow-throated warbler whose nest was 

 found on the 2nd, and also preparing to have Asbury 

 climb a pine to take a nest of D. pirms, both parents ap- 

 peared on the scene ; one, the male I believe, with a worm, 

 which he could be seen distinctly serving to his nestlings. 

 It seems to me that this nest must have been built the 

 first week in March for the young to have been hatched 

 as early as the fourth of April. Of course operations 

 for taking the nest were suspended ; ladder and rope and 

 saw were carried home. This nest of 'pinus' is thirty 

 feet from the ground and fifteen feet from the body of 

 the tree, on a horizontal branch. The sites of the other 

 two pine warblers' nests found this season are similar to 

 that of the one just described. They are, judging from 

 the eye, respectively fifteen and twenty-five feet from the 

 ground." 



Pine warblers were recorded as common near Perdido 

 Sept. 26, 1892. 



