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About ten minutes afterwards in tlic same 
woods another Kentucky Warbler got up very 
near me. I found its nest in a few minutes. 
It contained five young birds. The female 
ran rapidly along the ground, trying to induce 
me to follow it and leave the nest unmolested. 
Ne: The male was also near by. 
This nest was placed, like all the others, at 
the foot of a small bush. It was on a piece of 
yj level ground between two dried-up streams, 
son and was smaller than the other nests, though 
nest similar in construction. 
mow On June btli, I found another nest of this 
Dela Warbler. I was walking through the same 
alnu w0 °ds where I found nest No. 4, when a Ken- 
w ] 10 tucky Warbler got up close to me. The nest 
0] was easily found. It contained four fresh 
this 11 was plficert like all the others at the 
swa - foot of a small bush, and was on a hillside. 
War This nest was somewhat different from the 
soot others being more slightly put together and 
1 1 having in addition to some dead leaves, some 
was green ones. The lining was the same as the 
sma others, 
shel 1 f lhl not And any more nests until the 21st 
a p, 0 . of June, when I found two which were both in 
it w the same woods where I found my first set of 
ond * 1 egg*- The young birds bad left both these 
rjv nests, one could easily see by their condition, 
andi 0 lle °t the nests, however, contained one 
otlu rotten egg. They were both placed oil the 
root ground between the forks of small bushes, in 
I swampy parts of the woods, and were about 
y ea . an eighth of a mile apart, 
tion On the next day (the 22d), I found a nest 
and (which was just finished) in the woods where 
guc , I found my second set. I left this until the 
retl 20tli, when I returned and flushed tlie bird, 
cess Tl le nest then contained three eggs of the 
mir Warbler and one of the Cowbird, in which 
0 l u j incubation had begun. 
This nest had evidently been built by the 
j f (! same pair of birds that I took a set of five 
f ov j from on the 7th of June, as the two nests 
j were not more than fifty yards apart. It was 
ta j r placed on the ground between two small 
bushes in a rather open, level spot in the 
woods and was about twenty yards from a ! 
stream of water. 
I Apparently the nests do not differ materially 
except in size. Sometimes the lining consists 
also .of liorse-hair in addition to the black 
rootlets. The number of eggs in a set is from 
three to six, though usually four or five. Mr. 
Ladd has found two sets of three, while Mr. 
Jackson twice found sots of six. The eggs, 
like nearly all of those of the Warblers, are sub- 
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ject to great variation in size, shape, markings, 
etc., and it would take a large series to show 
all their variations. Cowbird’ s eggs are found 
sometimes in the nests. 
I think that a Kentucky Warbler prefers a 
swampy woods for its nesting place, though 
they often build on a hillside some distance 
from a swamp. 
The time to look for the eggs is from May 
25th to June 10th. 
Tiic four sots of eggs may he thus described : 
Juno G, 1889, Chester County, Penn. Five 
eggs, fresh; light, creamy white, heavily 
spotted with hazel and lilac-gray. On three 
of the eggs the markings are principally con- 
fined to the larger ends, where they form in- 
distinct wreaths, but the other two eggs are 
wreathed around the smaller ends: ,75x.59; 
.71 x .00; .71 x .58; .71x.60; .71x.60. 
June 7, 1889. Chester County, Penn. Five 
eggs, incubation slight; white, speckled and 
spotted with vinaceous, and a few spots of 
lilac-gray. The markings are principally con- 
fined to tlie larger ends, where they form 
indistinct wreaths : ,79x.G0; .80x01; .77x.OO; 
.79 x .00; .81 xOO. 
June 9, 1889. Chester County, Penn. Four 
eggs, fresh; wiiite, speckled and spotted with 
vinaceous-rufous and a few markings of lilac- 
gray. The markings are much heavier near 
tlie larger ends, where they form indistinct 
wreaths: ,76x.59; .71x52; .72x.59; .07x.56. 
June 29, 1889. Chester County, Penn. Three 
eggs, incubation begun, (contained also one 
egg of the Cowbird); light creamy Wiiite, 
speckled and spotted, chiefly at tlie larger 
ends, with cinnamon-rufous: ,87x.58; .84 x 
.58; .82JC.57. J. P. Norris Jr. 
XIV. July. 1889 P.104-10C 
