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

 as well." 



A nest described by M'Laughlin 8 from Statesville, N. G, was 

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

 found by Wayne 2 , near Charleston, S. C, however, 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 1 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 4 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 2 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 egg. 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 



(1) 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 Ool., 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. Brimley, Nesting of the Yel- 

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

 VII, 1890, 323. 



