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and grass, lined with fine black moss. 

 Incubation advanced. 



May 31, Set 56-3. Nest of fine bark, 

 leaves and grass, lined with fine black 

 moss; placed in reed, forty inches from 

 the ground. Incubation small em- 

 bryos. 



• May 31, Set 57-3. Nest of fine bark, 

 leaves and grass, lined with hair; 

 placed in small oak bush, about 30 

 inches from the ground. Eggs fresh. 



May 31, Set 58-3. Nest of fine bark, 

 leaves and fine grass, lined with fine 

 black moss; placed in bunch of briers, 

 about 30 inches from the ground. 

 Eggs fresh. 



June 5, Set 59-3. Nest of leaves, 

 fine bark and grass, lined with hair; 

 placed in reed, about 24 inches from 

 the ground. Incubation begun. 



June 21, Set 60-3. Nest of leaves, 

 fine bark and grass, lined with fine 

 black moss; placed in an alder, about 

 three feet from the ground. Incuba- 

 tion begun. 



The above is an exact list of data 

 for sets taken in 1897-98. 



The "'fine black moss," so often re- 

 ferred to as the lining, can be found 

 on almost any forest tree in this lo- 

 cality. 



All the above sets were taken in 

 Bertie county, near Merry Hill, N. C. 

 R. P. Smithweck, 

 Norfolk, Va. 



Kirtland's Warbler. 



On June 15th I took male and female 

 and beautiful nest in situ and four 

 fresh eggs of Dendroica kirtlandi in 

 Oscoda county, Mich., and on June 

 29th I took another nest in situ with 

 four fresh eggs. 



These, so far as I know, are the first 

 full sets of this bird known to science. 



Nests were on the ground in dense 

 vegetation of Deer Vines, Winter Green , 

 and various vines. Female is a very 



close sitter and the nests and eggs are 

 very hard to find. 



I spent two weeks in Northern Mich- 

 igan, Oscoda county, and took two 

 nests of the Junco, one contained four 

 eggs, the other three, both nests found 

 the same day, June 16, 1904. 



Dendroica kirtlandi is confined dur- 

 ing the breeding season to the Jack 

 Pine plains. The nest is built of 

 grasses and sunk into the ground and 

 always well concealed by surrounding 

 vines and vegetation. Female on eggs 

 allowed me to stand within six inches 

 of the nest and to almost touch her. I 

 could have put my hat over her on the 

 nest. The male is a beautiful singer 

 and very noticeable. 



E. Arnold. 



Green Leaves in Nests. 



In the "Oologist" for March, Mr. 

 Short has given us a most interesting 

 article on a series of sets of the Mis- 

 sissippi Kite, with description of lo- 

 cation and nest. 



The description of nests show that 

 green leaves were almost invariably 

 used in the lining, and Mr. Short sug- 

 gests that green leaves in the nest lin- 

 ing are used only by the Mississippi 

 Kite among American Avifauna. He 

 excepts the Cuckoos. 



As an exception to the general rule, 

 a description of a nest of Broad-winged 

 Hawk, found by my brother and my- 

 self in Sharon, Massachusetts, maybe 

 of interest. 



Nest: Small sticks, lined with hem- 

 lock bark and many green oak leaves. 



There were three eggs in which in- 

 cubation was almost completed, prov- 

 ing that the leaves must have been 

 added long after the eggs were laid. 

 J. H. Bowles, 

 Tacoma, Wash. 



