. The birds of Virginia . in a cavity in a dead log orstimip, a few feet above the water, composed of dryleaves, moss, and grasses. The eggs are creamy-white,sjjotted with reddish-brown, lavender, or chestnut, four innumber, and measure . Tresh eggs May 10th to20th. They undoubtedly raise two broods a season. Intheir northward migration they reach us around April10th, and depart southward the first week in ponds or lakes in our section seldom have more thantwo or three pair breeding in or around them, so theirfood, consisting of caterpillars, ants, larvae, and otherinsects ta
. The birds of Virginia . in a cavity in a dead log orstimip, a few feet above the water, composed of dryleaves, moss, and grasses. The eggs are creamy-white,sjjotted with reddish-brown, lavender, or chestnut, four innumber, and measure . Tresh eggs May 10th to20th. They undoubtedly raise two broods a season. Intheir northward migration they reach us around April10th, and depart southward the first week in ponds or lakes in our section seldom have more thantwo or three pair breeding in or around them, so theirfood, consisting of caterpillars, ants, larvae, and otherinsects taken thereabouts, can not play a very importantpart in our economic ornithology, but of course must beconsidered beneficial. They are beautiful birds, especiallythe male, and a magnificent songster. Genus Helinaia. [638]. Helinaia swainsoni (Audubon). SwainsonsWarbler. Range.—Southeastern United States. Breeds inAustroriparian zone from southeastern Missouri, southernIllinois, southern Indiana, and southeastern Virginia. SWAINSONS WARBLER OF VIRGINIA 281 (AA^arwick County) south to Louisiana and northernFlorida; winters in Jamaica; migrates through Cuhaand the Bahamas; casual in ISTebraska, Texas and VeraCruz. Truly a rare warbler, although throughout the DismalSwamp region it is numerous, nesting in and on the edgeof the cane brakes where it is extremely hard to find. Ibelieve the record for extending its breeding range northof James River falls to my lot,*—a single set of threeeggs taken on May 31st, 1908. The nest was placed aboutthree and a half feet up in a crotch of second-growth bush,between the main stems and numerous small bush, was on the edge of the bank of a mill pond andin a thick clump of second-growth bushes. It was com-posed of dry birch leaves, fine grass stems and pineneedles, a small amount of plant fiber and rootlets, linedwith fine grasses. Eggs bluish-white, unmarked. Size,. Only one brood raised during the season withus. They arrive
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