/ still, of the true royal family here, is 'Y/^ l3ofCii 

 Parula. She breeds, as our migration charts - 

 teach us to say, "abundantly." And why ^ oQyvt-d^ 

 shouldn't she, our little queen of these glades, X \ • 

 when she need fear no regicide ? She does iiH-'yiXX ^ 

 not have the arch enemy of our other Warb- 

 lers to contend with. In all the nests of this 

 species I ever saw I have found but one Cow- 

 bird's egg, and the nest containing the egg 

 was deserted. No arboreal builder carries less 

 material to her nest. The skeleton frame to 

 her house is already raised, and she has only 

 to fashion her window and lay her floor. 

 When Dr. Brewer first wrote me for nests and 

 eggs of the Paiula Warbler, and alluded to 

 sets of six from Taunton, I thought such sets 

 were freaks or impositions. So later, when 

 I sent Mr. J. Parker Norris a set of seven 

 1 believed it would long stand the largest 

 recorded set. But last season the first nest 1 

 found had five eggs, the next not twenty feet 

 distant had seven, and the last set taken con- 

 sisted of tight, all in swamp-huckleberry 

 bushes. 



The hornbeams and scrub-oaks hold the 

 bulk of the nests, but those in the draped un- 

 derbrush are easier found and got at. Yet 

 in both sites the nests are conspicuous to the 

 trained eye. Those which escape observation , /• 

 are placed close to the trunk of the trees, iO^ f- W. X VI. 

 harmonize, and present no outline. Six sue- JLL^ 

 cessive seasons is the longest I have known a / 

 Blue Yellow-back to haunt one spot, and I P,Sf~<a°^ 

 think that^s '^"^^^'^ J^^^^;^*''(S^^J^^''^"^ 



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