Nesting Habits of Texas Birds. 
, H. P. Aiwater, London, Ontario. 
Black-throated Bunting, ( Spiza americana). 
Very common; hundreds of flocks passed north 
| during the migrations and many stopped to 
breed. They prefer the lower and damper 
parts and build in the highest limb or top of an 
■ evergreen bush that is found in the low spots 
of this region. On the 15tli of May, 1884, I 
visited one of these spots and found about 
twenty nests nearly all completed and some 
containing four fresh eggs. Nests about five 
feet from the ground and quite bulky, com- 
pared with those of other birds of the same 
size. These birds seem to pass most of their 
time sitting on the top of these bushes and tall 
weeds, and keep up an incessant chirping from 
the time they arrive in the country. 
O.& O. XII, Aug. 1887 P.123 
