Dendroloa striata. 



Breozy Point, Warren, N.H. Mt .Moosilaulce . Nest. 

 1894. Vifhile searching for Thrushes' nests araong the young ^oal- 



June 22. sams at an elevation of atoout 3500 feet I stumbled on a nest 

 of the Black-poll Warbler. It was built just 37 inches above 

 the ground on a stout branch of a fallen and dying black 

 spruce. The foliage of the spruce branch although still green 

 afforded the nest little shelter but it v/as beautifully con- 

 cealed by the spreading, luxuriant shoots of a little balsain 

 which extended out close above it. A score or more of these 

 yoiing balsams, four or flvo feet tall, had shot up aromid and 

 through the spruce forming a dense thicket. Happening to step 

 on the trunk of the spruce I sav; some bird flit off among the 

 balsams.. Following I c^ae upon -a female Black-poll, a re- 

 markably fine old bird so heavily and conspicuously streaked 

 on the throat and sides that I took her at first for a male. 

 She was absurdly tame allowing me to got within three or four 

 feet of her and flitting about close to the ground pretending 

 to feed just as does the female Swamp Sparrow when started 

 from her nest. The pretence was so obvious that I felt sure 

 at once that this Warbl^jr had just left her nest but I had to 

 look for it very carefully before I found it. I afterwards 

 returned to it with Faxon and fouiid the bird sitting. Unlike 

 most sitting birds she kept moving her head about uneasily as 

 we stood within a yard or so of the nest looking at her. I 



