Cerulean Warbler. 



i)LOGIST. 117 



Nesting of the Cerulean Warbler. 



On May IS), 1889, while going througli the 

 woods in search of nests, I happened to see a 



I small nest situated in a tree about forty-flve 



i feet high. Thinking from its appearance it 

 must be the nest of some warbler I strapped 



• on my climbing irons and went up the tree, 

 and upon reaching the nest I found it to be all 

 completed but contained no eggs, so I left it 



i with the determination of visiting it again. 

 On the morning of the 25th niy fatlicr and I 

 went over there, and upon climbing the tree I 

 found a Cerulean Warbler (Bendroica cmrulea) 

 sitting on the nest. When she left the nest I 

 found it contained five fresh eggs, which I 

 safely packed and sent down on a string which 

 I had for the purpose. I then sawed off the 

 limb and sent down the nest. 



While getting the eggs and nest both the 

 $ and 9 of the birds were close around, some- 

 times coming within five or six feet of me. 

 The nest was situated in a beech tree forty- 

 six feet high and twelve feet from the body of 

 the tree. It is saddled on the limb and is 

 composed of fine strips of the inner bark of 

 trees with a few strips of grape-vine bark, and 

 having a few pieces of a kind of fungus fastened 

 to the outside and is lined with a fine veget- 

 able substance very much resembling red hair. 



The eggs are of a greenisli-white profusely 

 spotted witli small blotches and dots of light 

 reddish-brown and lilac, forming a ring around 

 the larger end, and with blotches of liglit red- 

 dish brown distributed over the entire surface. 

 They measure .67x.5], .05x.50, .66v.49, 



I .65 X .51, and .65 x .50. E. W. Durfee. 



Wayne County, Mich. 



[Since writing the above Mr. Durfee took 

 another nest of this species, containing four 

 fresh eggs. He found them on June 16, 1889, 

 in Wayne County, Michigan, and shot the $ 

 parent bird, so there can be no question as to 

 the identification. The nest, eggs, and 9 

 skin are now before me and may be tluis de- 

 scribed: 



Nest in maple tree, fifty feet from the 

 ground, and ten feet from the trimk of the 



i tree. Saddled on limb of fork. Cup-shaped, 

 and composed of plant fibres and strips of fine 

 bark; lined with grape-vine bark. Outside 

 deiJth, 1.30; outside diameter, 2.45; inside 



i depth, 1.20; inside diameter, 1.70. ? shot 

 and skin with nest and eggs. Four eggs, fresli. 

 Greenish-white, spotted with russet and burnt 

 umber, chiefly near the larger ends: .65x51; 



' .66X..52; .64x.51; .66 x. 51.-, 7. P. N.] 



On the 19th of J u le I took a set ol ibur 

 eggs and nest of this rare Warbler. The 

 nest was built in an oak tree forty-five feet 

 I from the ground and six feet out on a 

 small limb, and is made of very fine twigs 

 and grasses and lined with grass and horse 

 J hair, the outside stuccoed with lichens 

 held in place by spider webs. Dimen- 

 sions of nest, external depth il/i inches, 

 I width 2^ ; internal depth 1 inch, width 

 1 2, 1-16. The eggs are a light cream, 

 spotted and blotched with various shades 

 ot brown and lilac over the entire egg, 

 : forming a wreath at the large end ; three 

 'eggs measure .65X.50, and one .6ox.^o. 



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O &0. XIV. Aug. 1889 P.U7 



