. Birds of North Carolina . eaving the fibers of the plant together, but little building materialbeing brought from outside. The entrance is on the side, and the nests are usuallyin trees standing near water, as it is in such a situation that the Usnea is gener-ally found growing. Occasionally the nest is built in a bunch of the hanging orSpanish moss {TiUandsm usneoides), as was the case ^vith one found under con-struction on the edge of Great Lake, in Craven County, by H. H. Brimley, in lateMay, 1908, and another found at Lake Ellis by Pearson in June, 1903. Two setsof eggs were taken by Smi
. Birds of North Carolina . eaving the fibers of the plant together, but little building materialbeing brought from outside. The entrance is on the side, and the nests are usuallyin trees standing near water, as it is in such a situation that the Usnea is gener-ally found growing. Occasionally the nest is built in a bunch of the hanging orSpanish moss {TiUandsm usneoides), as was the case ^vith one found under con-struction on the edge of Great Lake, in Craven County, by H. H. Brimley, in lateMay, 1908, and another found at Lake Ellis by Pearson in June, 1903. Two setsof eggs were taken by Smithwck in Bertie County in late April, 1896, and raid- 282 Birds of Xorth Carolina June, 1897, both from lUsts hidden in hunehes of Usiirn at heights of five and tenfeet respectively. Both nests were Hned with feathers and hair. A nest was takenby MeLaughhn in Iredell County on May 11, 1887, and Cairns reported the speciesbreeding in Buncombe County in May and June, the nests averaging about twenty-five feet from the Fia. 227. Wakulkk. The eggs number three to five, pure white, and are speckled around the largerend with reddish brown and lilac. Size .65 x .48. This s])eeies is one of the smallest and most dainty of our warblers, and in sum-mer is a familiar feature of our damp lowland woods. In August and .Septemberit is to be seen migrating in great n\unbers in upland woods. 283. Compsothlypis americana usneae {Brewst.). NoRTHEnx Parul.\ A\AIUiLEH. Description.— to proceding, the clitst darker :ind more conspicuously niarkcd; the billavoraKing somewhat shorter. lidiKir.—This is the Northern :in<l Mississippi Valley form of the species. Rniiijc ill North Carolina.—So far, oidy known from Raleigh, as a spring migrant. Years ago C. S. Brimley took a single spring specimcu of this Form of the IarulaWarhler at Raleigh. The heavy markings on the l)reast were very iironnunccd. Genus Dendroica (Gray) This, the largest and most important genus of the wa
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