The Oologist. 



Vol. XXII. No. 8. 



Albion, N. Y., August, 1905. 



Whole No. 217 



The Oologist. 



A Monthly Publication Devoted to 

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In North Carolina and Virginia. 



Polioptila caerulea. 



A common summer resident of regu- 

 lar distribution in all suitable locali- 

 ties, and a common breeding bird in 

 all sections of the states. Not being of 



irregular distribution so far as I have 

 been able to ascertain in any particular 

 place, but they put in their appearance 

 on dates varykig as much as eight or 

 ten days; on some seasons arriving by 

 the twentieth of March, while on others 

 they do not reach us before the first of 

 April. In the west they are a few days 

 later than in the southwest, and much 

 later than in the east. In northern 

 Virginia they arrive several days later 

 than in the southeast, and much later 

 than in the southeastern sections of 

 North Carolina. In Bertie county, 

 North Carolina, nest building begins 

 by the 25th of April, but sometimes 

 the nest may not be begun before the 

 first of May. In beginning the con- 

 struction of the nest, as if from some 

 definite cause, all the birds seem to 

 be late on the same season. Mr. H. 

 Gould Welbourne (see Oologist, Sept. 

 1895), gives them as a common sum- 

 mer visitor around Lexington, North 

 Carolina, and describes a nest in the 

 upright fork of a plum bush only five 

 or six feet from the ground. On the 

 20th of April, in Norfolk county, I ob- 

 served a pair of birds building their 

 nests in the "V" shaped crotch of a 

 small willow at the height of 11 feet 

 from the ground. The nest was visit- 

 ed several times, and on May 5th was 

 found to contain three fresh eggs. 

 As in the north and west they arrive a 

 few days later than in the south and 

 east, so, also, are they from three to 

 eight days later in building their 

 nests. During the construction of the 

 nest both birds share alike in the 

 labors, but the male seem to be de- 

 void of that hustling quality that so 

 well marks the efforts of the female; 

 even then he is far from being a lazy 



