450 NESTS AND EaGS OF 



The Kentucky Warbler is particularly an abundant species in the Lower Missis- 

 sippi Valley — Southern Indiana and Illinois, and southward to Texas. Colonel Goss 

 gives it as a common summer resident of Kansas; begins laying about May 20. Its 

 nests and eggs have been taken In Southern Illinois and Indiana in the middle of 

 May. It is a rare summer resident in particular localities in Ohio; more common in 

 the southwestern portion. Mr. Frank W. Langdon found a nest containing four eggs 

 of the Warbler and one of the Cow-bird near Madisonville, Hamilton county, Ohio, 

 on May 28. The eggs were far advanced in incubation. In Jones' magnificent work, 

 "Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio," there is a beautiful illustration of a nest which was 

 found on the 20th of May, 1880, in Kentucky, near the Ohio line. The bird has been 

 discovered nesting near Sing Sing, New York, in June; at Fort Lee, New Jersey. Its 

 nests have also been taken in the District of Columbia in May. John S. Cairns found 

 a nest of the Kentucky Warbler in Buncombe county. North Carolina, June 15, 1886. 

 Mr. C. J. Fennock in "Birds of Chester county, Pennsylvania"* gives it as a rather 

 common summer resident. It has been found nesting in that region by Mr. Pennock, 

 Mr. Ladd, Thomas H. Jackson and others. The nest of this species is placed on the 

 ground in woods; it is usually very bulky, composed of leaves, grasses, and lined 

 with rootlets or horse hair. It is generally situated at the foot of a bush or weed 

 stalk. Mr. Pennock informs me that he found the nest deeply imbedded in leaves 

 with weeds growing around them; others were discovered among leaves at a con- 

 siderable distance from grass or weeds. The eggs are four or five, rarely six, in 

 number. They are white, variously speckled or spotted with burnt umber, cinnamon- 

 rufous and lilac-gray, chiefly and more heavily at the larger ends. The average size* 

 of the eggs is .73x.57 inches. 



678. CONNECTICUT WABBLEK. Geothlypis agilis (Wila.) Geog. Dlst— 

 Eastern North America, breeding north of the United States 



This is one of the rarest of North American Warblers, seen in the United States 

 ■only during the spring and fall migrations; in the latter season abundant in some 

 localities. The first authentic nest and eggs of this species known were those taken 

 by Mr. Ernest E. Thompson, who found a nest June 21, 1883, on a moss mound in a 

 tamarack swamp near Carberry, Manitoba. It was composed entirely of dry grass, 

 sunken level with the surface. The eggs were four in number and measured .75x 

 .56 inches. Before blown they were of a delicate creamy-white, with a few spots of 

 lilac, brown, and black, inclining to form a ring at the large end. The nest with 

 eggs and parent birds is now in the National Museum. Another set of these eggs 

 has, I believe, been taken, but I have no record of it. Mr. C. W. Crandall, of Wood- 

 side, N. T., has what is undoubtedly the second or third authentic set of the Con- 

 necticut Warbler's eggs known to science. They were taken by the veteran collector 

 and ornithological writer, Wm. L. Kells, on Wildwood Farm, Listowel, Ontario, 

 June 7, 1895. The nest was placed In a cluster of raspberry vines, in hardwoo't timber. 

 The nest is composed of shreds of leaves, fibres of bark, grass, rootlets and hair. 

 The eggs, four in number, measure as follows: .79x.56, .81x.57, .81x.56, .80x.57 inches, 

 respectively. Mr. Crandall writes me: "Your description of the coloration of Mr. 

 Thompson's set of this species fits my eggs exactly with the exception that the 

 markings are not all confined to the large ends, but are also, especially in two of the 

 specimens, sparingly distributed over the entire egg, and in one specimen the fine 

 specks are pretty evenly distributed over the entire surface. The surface markings 

 are very few, the majority being shell spots." 



