The Oologist. 



Vol. XXI. 



Albion, X. Y ., February, 1904. 



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W'lK.LK \o. l'.l'.) 



The Oologist. 



a Monthly Publication Devoted to 



OOLOGY, ORNITHOLOGY AND 



TAXIDERMY. 



FRANK H. LATTIN, Publisher, 

 ALBION, N. Y. 



ERNEST H. SHORT, Editor and Manager. 



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ERNEST H. SHORT. Editor nnd Manager. 

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Patched Together. 



Black-Throated Blue Warblejb 

 an© i >thkrs. 

 The Editor has just closed a pleas- 



ant correspondence with Mr. ('. F. 

 Stone of Branchport, Yates Co., X. Y. 

 in regard to the identity of two sets of 

 Warbler's eggs and it has occurred to 

 him that parts of .Mr. Stone's letter- 

 patched up, would prove as interest- 

 ing to many readers of the Oologist as 

 to him. 



In regard to the sets Mr. Stone was in 

 doubt about, following is copied from 

 correspondence of Nov. Blth, 1903. 



"I had come to an open space in 

 dense bushes, (a bush lot surrounded 

 by hemlocks)., and noted two or three 

 dense growths of beech sprouts from 

 stumps. 



I looked at one likely bunch putting 

 my hand in the top where the leave- 

 were matted and, with a loud fl 

 went a bird, i peered over, 

 the", nest which was hidden in the 

 dense foliage. It rested on the dense 

 and tangled leaves and sprouts, con- 

 cealed alt around but open to the sky. 

 The female when flushed dropped to 

 round and remained out of sight 

 for t,vo or three minutes, then f saw 

 coming back through the low 

 bushes but she was io [j [y thai a 

 real good look at her was impossible. 

 1!' ■ is a description of the female 

 that i gained as she flitted in .a most 

 lively manner through bushes, high 

 and low, or through dead limbs close 

 to the ground. 



Under parts from breast to within 

 about ] 4 _ inch of end of taii a -oiled 

 yellowish, brighter fti'the rear. Breast 

 dusky, throat dingy white, side of 

 head an 1 upper neck bluish ashy, up- 

 per parts uniform dark olive brown. 

 tip of tail blackish on underside for 

 about ' 4 inch. 



This Warbler's note or "chip" is 

 peculiar, wholly different . from am 

 other warbler I've ever heard. It is 

 strong, vigorous, alto-toned, musical, 

 seems to approach the '"chip*' of the 

 Maryland Yellow-throat yet different". 



The eggs, four in number taken 

 June 21st., 1903, contained small em- 

 bryos. After comparing the set and 



