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Nest and Eggs of Swainson’s Warbler. 
They would fly up from the ground and, hovering like a 
Hawk or Kingfisher, fix the leaves in place with their bills. 
The female laid her first egg June 26, and one on each of the 
following two days. I took the nest on the fifth day, when 
dissection of the female showed that the set was complete.” 
The nest taken June 27 contained two eggs, chipped and 
on the point of hatching. Unfortunately both were broken 
in blowing; but Mr. Wayne describes them as “dead white, 
without spots.” He sends me the shells of one, which are 
quite immaculate. 
The set of three eggs just mentioned is also before me. 
The specimens are in perfect condition, and measure re¬ 
spectively *75 x *58, '77 x' 58, and -74x*58. They are all 
oval, with the smaller end decidedly blunt and rounded, and 
in genera] shape closely resemble the smaller egg of the set 
described in f Forest and Stream/ vol. xxiv. no. 24, p. 468. 
Their ground-colour is also similar—dull white, with a faint 
but appreciable bluish tinge. One is perfectly plain; another, 
like the larger egg of the first set, has two or three minute 
specks, which may be genuine shell-markings; while the 
third is unmistakably spotted and blotched with pale lilac. 
Over most of the surface these markings are fine, faint, and 
sparsely distributed ; but about the larger end they become 
coarser, thicker, and deeper-coloured, forming a well-defined 
ring or wreath. All three eggs have a slight polish, and the 
shells look hard and thick for those of a Warbler’s eggs. 
The nests are similar in general position and construction 
to the specimen described by me in f Forest and Stream,’ but 
both differ in certain important details. The one containing 
the set of three eggs is composed almost entirely of bleached 
straw-coloured cane-leaves, with an interior lining of pine- 
needles and a few thread-like strands of black moss, appa- 
rently Tiltandsia. This nest is much the smallest of the 
four, measuring externally 3*50 in diameter by 3*00 in depth, 
internally 1*50 in diameter by F50 in depth, the greatest 
thickness of the rim or outer wall being F00. Unlike the 
specimen first described, it is firmly supported on all sides by 
the fascicled branches among which it rests. Its shape is 
