Sept. 1889.] 
AND OOLOGIST. 
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A Series of Eggs of the Pine Warbler. 
Nineteen nests of the Pine Warbler (Den- 
droica vigorsii) are before me, anti they exhibit 
so much uniformity of construction that the 
description of one will suffice for all. 
They were all built on the horizontal limbs 
of pine trees, from tw.o to twelve feet from the 
trunk, and the height from the ground varied 
from twenty to eighty feet. The most usual 
distance, however, was about fifty feet. They 
are composed of small strips of grape-vine 
bark, closely woven together, and have a 
great quantity of white cocoons on the outside. 
Inside they are lined with fine grass and horse- 
hair, with a good many feathers. Some nests 
have fewer of the latter than others, but one 
of them is lined with feathers of the Cardinal 
* We have received a number of communications 
questioning the identity of some ot tti ■ lords given in 
this list, the writers believing that those reierred to 
caunot breed in the locality. In our next issue we will 
publish notes from them.— F. li. W. 
Grosbeak ( Cardinally cardinally) which makes 
it very pretty. An average one measures 1.70 
inches in depth outside by 2.80 outside diam- 
eter. The inside depth is 1.45, and the inside 
diameter 1.55. The eggs belonging to the 
above nests may be thus described: 
Set I. April 12, 18S8. Wake County, North 
Carolina. Nest in pine tree, sixty feet from 
ground, and live feet from trunk. Bird seen 
building nest. Four eggs, fresh. Grayish- 
white, spotted and speckled with lilac-gray 
and chestnut. The markings are principally 
grouped in wreaths near the larger ends: .75 
x .55 : .72 x .55 ; .74 x .55 ; .70 x .54. The largest 
eggs in the series. 
Set II. April 14, 1888. Wake County, North 
Carolina. Nest in pine tree, fifty feet from 
ground, and eight feet from trunk. Bird on 
nest. Four eggs, incubation one-tenth. Dark 
grayish-white, speckled and spotted with lilac- 
gray and chestnut. The heaviest markings 
are nearly all confined to wide wreaths near 
the larger ends: ,73x.53; ,72x.52; ,71x,51; 
.71 x .51. 
Set 111. April 14, 1888. Wake County, North 
Carolina. Nest in pine tree fifty-five feet from 
ground, and ten feet from trunk. Bird on 
nest. Four eggs, incubation two-tenths. Dark 
grayisli-wliite, heavily spotted witli lilac-gray 
and chestnut. The markings are scattered all 
over the eggs, hut are heaviest near the larger 
ends: ,72x.51; .74x.52; .73x.5I; ,74x.52. 
Set IV. April 16, 1888. Wake County, North 
Carolina. Nest in pine tree fifty feet from 
ground, and nine feet from trunk. Bird on 
nest. Five eggs, Incubation four-tenths, Gray- 
ish-wliite, speckled and spotted with lilac-gray 
and chestnut. The markings are thickest and 
heaviest near the larger ends, where they form 
indistinct wreaths: ,70x .56; .73 x .57 ; .72 x .57 ; 
.67x.54; ,73 x.57. Five eggs is an unusual 
number for this species. 
Set V. April 20, 1887. Iredell County, 
North Carolina. Nest on limb of pine tree, 
twenty feet from ground. Four eggs, incuba- 
tion begun. Grayish-white, spotted with lilac- 
gray and burnt umber. The markings are 
nearly all at the larger ends: .69 x .53; .69 x .51 ; 
.66 x .51 ; .67 x .51. 
Sot YI. April 10, 18SS. Wake County, 
North Carolina. Nest in pine tree sixty feet 
from ground, and eight feet from trunk. Bird 
on nest. Four eggs, incubation four-tenths. 
Grayisli-wliite, heavily spotted with chestnut 
and lilac-gray. The spots are all over the 
surface but aro heaviest near tlie larger ends: 
.69 x.53; ,70x.52; ,09x.53; ,69x.54. 
Set VII. May 3, 1888. Wake County, North 
Carolina. Nest in pine tree fifty feet from 
ground, and two feet from trunk. Bird on 
nest. Four eggs, incubation four-tenths. 
Grayisli-wliite, spotted with chestnut and a 
few traces of lilac-gray. The markings on 
tills set, although somewhat heavier near the 
larger ends, are more evenly distributed all 
over their surface than on any others in the 
scries: ,70x.54; ,71x.54; .69 x .54 ; .70 x.53. 
Set VIII. April 16, 1888. Iredell County, 
North Carolina. Nest in pine tree thirty-five 
feet from ground. Four eggs, incubation 
begun. Bird on nest. Grayisli-wliite, speckled 
and spotted with chestnut and lilac-gray. 
Nearly all the markings on this set are grouped 
together in wreaths, and on three of the eggs 
these wreaths are near the larger ends, while 
on the fourth it is near the smaller end: .68 
x.52; ,66x.54; ,68x,53; .67 x,5o. 
Set IX. May 4, 1888. Wake County, North 
Carolina. Nest in pine tree sixty feet from 
ground, and six feet from trunk. Four eggs, 
incubation five- tenths. Deep grayish-white, 
speckled a id spotted with lilac-gray and chest- 
nut. There are also a few specks of burnt 
umber: .74x,53; .73 x.53; ,74x,52; .72x.51. 
Set X. April 18, 1888. Wake County, North 
Carolina. Nest in pine tree sixty-five feet from 
ground, and three feet from trunk. Bird on 
nest. Four eggs, incubation six-tenths. 
Grayisli-wliite, speckled and spotted with 
lilac-gray and chestnut. The markings of the 
latter color are large, and oblong in shape, 
being different in this respect from any others in 
the series: .72 x,53; .73x.53; ,74x.53; ,70x.52. 
Set XI. April 9, 1888. Wake Comity, North 
Carolina. Nest in pine tree twenty feet from 
ground, and fifteen feet from trunk. Bird on 
nest. Four eggs, fresh. Pinkish - white, 
speckled and spotted with brick red and a few 
markings of lilac-gray. This set is perfectly 
authenticated, as the bird was on the nest, 
which is exactly similar to all of the others 
belonging to sets of eggs described in this 
article. In shape and size the eggs are similar 
to the other sets, hut in all other respects they 
are unlike any of them, and at a first glance 
anyone would say that they could not have 
been laid by a Pine Warbler, so different are 
they in their general appearance. The ground 
color of all the others is of a decided grayish 
or bluish tint, while in this set it is pinkish- 
white, and the markings are so much more 
brilliant that tlie whole effect of the eggs is 
decidedly reddish. I have seen over fifty sets 
I of eggs of this bird, but none of them were at 
