. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . s beenfound breeding most numerously in thickets andtangled underbush about swamps and pools inany locality. Their nests are either in bushes orattached to upright rushes over water after themanner of the Long-billed Marsh Wren, beingmade of leaves, moss, rootlets, etc., lined with finegrasses or hair, and deeply cupped for the recep-tion of the three or four unmarked white or eggs which are laid during May or .75 x .58
. The bird book : illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs . s beenfound breeding most numerously in thickets andtangled underbush about swamps and pools inany locality. Their nests are either in bushes orattached to upright rushes over water after themanner of the Long-billed Marsh Wren, beingmade of leaves, moss, rootlets, etc., lined with finegrasses or hair, and deeply cupped for the recep-tion of the three or four unmarked white or eggs which are laid during May or .75 x .58. Data.—Near Charlestown, S. C,May 12, 1888, 3 eggs. Nest in canes 4 feet fromground, made of strips of rushes, sweet gum andwater oak leaves, lined with pine needles. 639. Worm-eating Warbler. Helmitheros vermivorus. Range.—United States east of thePlains, breeding north to southernNew England and Illinois; winterssouth of our borders. This bird can be identified in allplumages by the three light bulland two black stripes on the crown White and narrower black stripes through the eye. Theirhabits are similar to those of the Oven-bird, they 386. Swainsons Warbler Worm-eating Waiblei PERCHING BIRDS feeding largely upon the ground amid dead are quite abundant in most localities in theirrange, nesting in hollows on the ground in openwoods or shrubbery on hill sides; the nest is madeof leaves, grasses and rootlets, lined with hair orfiner grasses, and is usually placed under theshelter of some small bush. They lay (in or July) three to six eggs, white, marked orblotched either sparingly or heavily with chestnulor lavender. Size .70 x .52. 640. Bachmans Warbler. Verrriivorabachmani. Range.—Southeastern United States, along tueGull coast to Louisiana and north to Virginia andMissouri. This species is one of the rarest of the Warb-lers, but is now much more abundant than twentyyears ago, when it iiad apparently are greenish above, and yellow
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