188 THE BIRDS 
hardly be overestimated. The nests are placed in upright 
crotches of bushes or limbs, occasionally on a horizontal 
limb, from six to thirty feet up, composed of fine grasses, 
spider-webs and plant fiber. The eggs are a creamy- 
white, occasionally sparingly specked with faint markings 
of reddish-brown. Size, .64x.51. Fresh eggs May 25th 
to June 10th, only one brood a season. I found ten nests 
in one day at Mountain Lake, Giles County, altitude 
4,500 feet. 
