The Hermit Warbler 



deemed worthy of 

 record. 



The nesting of 

 the Hermit Warbler 

 has always pos- 

 sessed a peculiar 

 fascination for Cal- 

 ifornian ornithol- 

 ogists. And at 

 that I am bound to 

 record, as I did ten 

 years ago, "the nest 

 of this species is 

 still rare." Most of 

 the Californian 

 records gather 

 about the classical 

 locality of Fyffe in 

 Eldorado County, 

 where the first fully 

 identified set 

 known to science 

 was taken by Rollo 

 H. Beck, on June 

 10, 1896. 1 The 

 Beck set, n/4, was 

 placed well out on 

 a sloping limb of 

 yellow pine at a 

 height of forty feet, 

 and a regional ele- 

 vation of 3500. 

 The following year, on June nth, Mr. F. M. Nutting 2 found a nest 

 containing young, which was placed only 12 feet up in a small cedar. 

 Chester Barlow took the second set, also of four eggs, in the same locality 

 on June 14th, 1 898.3 This was placed at a height of 45 feet in a yellow 

 pine, but good photographs were secured and published. 4 The third set, 

 n/4, June 8, 1899, fell to the lot of our veteran oologist, Henry W. Car- 

 riger, then in his twenties. This might have been deemed an easy find, 

 since it was placed only 2}4 feet up in a tiny cedar; but a Hermit Warbler 



■The Nidologist. March. 1897, p. 79. 



»The Auk, Vol. XVI.. April, 1899. P- 157. 



3 Ib.. p. 158. 



4 The Condor, Vol. II., March, 1900, pp. 44 and 45. 



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