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Bailey on a Collection of Eggs from Georgia. 
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MEMORANDA OF A COLLECTION OF EGGS 
FROM GEORGIA. 
BY H. B. BAILEY. 
It was my fortune this summer to come into possession of a 
collection of eggs made in Georgia, between the years 1853 and 
1865, by the late Dr. S. W. Wilson. The notes accompanying 
the same furnish the following memoranda which are of value, 
since few collectors have visited, or at least reported on, this 
locality. The collection was made chiefly on St. Simon’s Island 
and in Wayne and McIntosh Counties. The eggs are remarkably 
well preserved, each set being packed carefully in a separate 
box labeled according to the old Smithsonian Catalogue. They 
are always accompanied by dates and sometimes by copious 
notes. The alleged nesting sites of a few of the species repre- 
sented, are peculiar, and in the case of one or two, seemingly 
improbable. But the collection, as a whole, seems to have been 
so carefully identified that I give the notes as I find them leaving 
it to the reader to accept’ or reject such as he chooses. The 
field represented should be a profitable one for some of our pres- 
ent collectors to visit. 
1. Mimus polyglottus. Mockingbird. — Nests in low trees and 
shrubs, near settlements; eggs four or five. A set taken April 1. 
2. Harporhynchus rufus. Brown Thrasher. — Nests in low bushes 
or in fence corners; eggs three or four. A set taken May 1. 
3. Sialia sialis. Bluebird. — Nests in hollow trees and similar places ; 
eggs five. A set taken April 1. 
4. Polioptila caerulea. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. — Nests either 
saddled on a branch of a tree or in a fork; eggs four or five. A set taken 
April 30. 
5. Lophophanes bicolor. Tufted Titmouse. — Nest of the hair of 
the hog and opossum, and the “epidermis” of pine leaves ; in hollow trees. 
A set of five eggs, taken May 8, was in a small oak five feet from the 
ground. 
6. Pams carolinensis. Carolina Chickadee. — Nest in a hollow 
stump, fence rail, or similar place near the ground; the bottom lined 
with cotton and other soft materials. A set of six eggs taken April 10. 
7. Bitta pusilla. Brown-headed Nuthatch. — Eggs four, some- 
times five. Nest in the stump of a large pine about two feet from the 
ground ; after penetrating the bark a large cavity is completely filled with 
