Dendroica coronata. 
Nest. 
Watrous had previously found two Warbler's nests in a 
June 14. grove of large hemlocks close to the shore near the "Gut". 
One proved to be an old nest but the other was a Yellow-rump's 
with four eggs rather far advanced in incubation. This, nest 
was in a hemlock on a stout horizontal branch about 5 ft. from 
its extremity, 10 ft. from the main trunk, 35 ft. above the 
ground, and the same distance from the top of the tree. 
The female Yellow-rump was sitting and for some time she 
absolutely refused to leave her eggs. ’Watrous first shook 
the branch and then with a long stick poked and shook smartly 
the twigs within an inch or two of her head. At length she 
hopped out of the nest and stood for a moment or more on its 
rim looking about her. Then she fluttered down towards the 
ground with quivering wings and wide spread tail moving slowly 
and alighting several times on a branch or cluster of twigs 
would 
where she^lie prostrate for a moment beating her wings feebly 
and simulating the movements of a wounded or otherwise disa¬ 
bled bird. In short she behaved precisely as one of the 
ground-nesting birds ( Se iurus for example ) will do under simi¬ 
lar circumstances. Watrous secured this nest and set in the 
same manner as that by which he took the Bay-breast's earlier 
in the day. The nest was lined with feathers as usual but 
from beneath it looked so nearly like a Bay-breast's that we 
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