Nesting of the Prairie Warbler at 
Raleigh, N. C. 
The Prairie Warbler (Demlroica discolor) is 
fairly common at Raleigh, but the nest is by 
no means easy to find as the birds seem to 
wander, while building, quite a long way from 
the nest, and even when the nest is found it is 
often deserted afterwards, so sets don’t get 
taken as often as it looks as if they ought. 
In this locality the Prairie Warbler delights 
in sunny hillsides covered with bushes and 
saplings, building its nest in one of these at a 
height of from one to twelve feet from the 
ground, hut usually about three or four feet 
high. They start building' about the first of 
May and w ill have fresh sets from the middle 
to the end of May, some pairs being later than 
others, apparently. The nest is a beautiful 
structure, usually being largely composed of 
rabbit tobacco, a kind of gray-leaved, wild ever- 
lasting very much used by birds in nest build- 
ing, and is lined with soft materials. 
Unlike some localities where this bird nests 
mainly in pine saplings, here sweet gums are 
the preference, with elm about next best, 
nests being only found very occasionally in 
pines, although pine saplings about the right 
size are usually more abundant in the locali- 
ties frequented by this bird than any other 
tree. 
The set is usually four, sometimes three, and 
if one set is taken another nest will be built 
and another set laid, but the second nest is 
usually harder to find than the first, and that 
is hard enough. C. S. Brimley. 
Raleigh, -N . C. 
15. Nov, 1890 
