. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. w 440 NESTS AND EQQS OF sometimes in numbers, flitting about in search of insect food, and uttering its pe- culiar syllables which sound like zvc, zvr, zee, zv-cv-ai). It is not strange that the neat of this species has been so seldom discovered, even where the bird is very abundant during the breeding season. The nest is built in the higher horizontal branches of forest trees, always at some distance from the trunlc, and ranging from twenty to flfty feet above the ground. The Blue or Cerulean Warb
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. w 440 NESTS AND EQQS OF sometimes in numbers, flitting about in search of insect food, and uttering its pe- culiar syllables which sound like zvc, zvr, zee, zv-cv-ai). It is not strange that the neat of this species has been so seldom discovered, even where the bird is very abundant during the breeding season. The nest is built in the higher horizontal branches of forest trees, always at some distance from the trunlc, and ranging from twenty to flfty feet above the ground. The Blue or Cerulean Warbler is an abundant summer resident in Central Ohio, where it prefers damp woods for nesting. Mr. J. A. Allen describes a nest and lour eggs which were taken in Monroe county, New York, .Tun': 7, 1878. The nest was placed in the forks of a small ash, about twenty-five feet from the ground. One taken near Drummondsville, Ontario, near Niagara Falls, and de- scribed by Dr. Brewer, was built in a large oak tree, fifty feet from the ground. This and another nest containing four eggs taken by Mr. Wm. Bryant at Mount Carmel, Illinois, May 16, 1878, are in the Museum of Comparative Zoology. Mr. Allen states that the Mount Carmel nest was also placed at an elevation of twenty-five feet.* Prof. Evermann give the Cf" '.ean Warbler as a common summer resident of Car- roll county, Indiana. A^.', .;i, Davidson secured two nests of this species with eggs, in Niagara county, N v\ Y;«<, on June 8 and 23, 1888. They were built in small basswood trees, about t<''"')??â iiiccessible. Two broods were observed in July in the same woods. The nests are ci/mpactly made of fine, dry grasses, bound to- gether with spiders' silk to which are attached pieces cf whitish lichen; the lining is strips of bark and fine grass. The eggs are bluish-white or greenish-white, speckled with reddish-brown and lilac, chiefly at the larger end, and often in the form of a wreath. Mr. Davidson gives the
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