Unusual Nesting Site ofDendroica virens. — There stands, a little aside 
from a public road on Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on the top of a small hil- 
lock, some distance from any woods, a small pagoda of two stories, which 
is almost nightly filled by noisy pleasure-seekers. About it a grape-vine 
grows luxuriantly, and here, scarcely ten feet from the ground and only 
six from the floor of the piazza, a pair of Black-throated Green Warblers 
built their nest in the spring of 1SS8. Placed on the main stem of the 
vine, and so surrounded by leaves and twigs as to be absolutely invisible 
from the outside, it was nevertheless in plain sight the moment one 
stepped inside the sheltering vine upon the piazza. When I found the 
nest on June 29 it contained two eggs and one young bird, and on July 1 
the eggs had hatched. — John C. Brown, Portland , Maine. 
Auk, VI. Jan., 1889 .P. /Y, 
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A Ground Nest of the Black-throated Green Warbler. — This Warbler 
is notoriously variable in its choice of a nesting site. The usual 
situation, of course, is the horizontal branch of a pine, hemlock or 
spruce, but I have seen nests built at or near the tops of tall specimens 
of these evergreens, in deciduous trees, such as birches and elms, and 
in barberry bushes in open pastures. It appears, however, that there is 
an even wider range of possibilities, for Mr. Clarence II. Watrous has 
just sent meanest which he found — at Chester, Connecticut, June 18, 
1894 — on the ground “among a large clump of ferns in a very low and 
damp place under a heavy growth of hemlocks.” There is nothing 
peculiar about the composition or construction of this nest save that it 
is unusually bulky and loosely woven at the bottom, showing plainly — 
were such evidence needed — that it must have originally rested on a 
broader and more stable foundation than the fork or branch of a tree 
or shrub. Its identification is placed beyond all question by the fact 
that it is accompanied by the skin of its little architect and owner who 
was shot while sitting on her four eggs. These, it may be added, are 
perfectly typical eggs of D. virens . — William Brewster, Cambridge. 
Mass. 
