. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . they congregate for mi-gration. I will close by giving the readersome notes and data from my fieldbook, regarding the nesting of Opor-ornis Tolmier, Tolmie Warbler, asNo. 1, Date, May 30, 1908; In apatch of slashed over land; withheavy sallal growth; built beside alog in sallal bushes, 16 inches abovethe ground, well concealed by growthof ferns. It was composed of longweed stems, several dry sallal leaves,shreds of fern, lined with fine grass,rootlets and a few horse hairs. Thenest contained four eggs apparentlyfar incubated. Howe
. The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs . they congregate for mi-gration. I will close by giving the readersome notes and data from my fieldbook, regarding the nesting of Opor-ornis Tolmier, Tolmie Warbler, asNo. 1, Date, May 30, 1908; In apatch of slashed over land; withheavy sallal growth; built beside alog in sallal bushes, 16 inches abovethe ground, well concealed by growthof ferns. It was composed of longweed stems, several dry sallal leaves,shreds of fern, lined with fine grass,rootlets and a few horse hairs. Thenest contained four eggs apparentlyfar incubated. However, when ex-amined June 10, the eggs were notyet hatched; June 16, four young oc-cupied the nest. No. 2, Date, June 9, 1908; On asteep, brushy hillside, in rankygrowth of ferns, sallals and hazelbrush; built in a clump of hazel, 19-inch elevation. It was saddled on anumber of small twigs, composed ofweedstems, much dry fern leaves andstrips of fern bark, lined entirelywith black rootlets. It was very frailand loosely put together; contained 108 THE OOLOGIST. Nest and Eggs of McGillvrays Warbler —Photo by Alex Walker THE OOLOGIST 109 four very uniformly marked eggs, in-cubated about one week. No. 3, Date, June 2, 1909; At theedge of a woods, in dense fern andbriars; at the north slope of a littleknoll caused by a windfall. The nestwas placed, at the foot of a tiny fir,directly on the ground. It was com-posed of dry leaves, bindweed stems,shreds of bark and grass, lined withwhite, dry grass blades, a very typi-cal nest of this specie, except that itwas on the ground. It contained fivepartly incubated eggs, June 13th theyoung hatched and June 28th theyoung accompanied the parents inthe brush close to the nest. No. 4, Date, June 5, 1909; In brushyland with thinly scattered large firtrees; built in the dense top of ascrubby little fir five feet above theground, saddled on and twined amongthe numerous small twigs of the fir;composed of bark strips, weedstemsand grasses, lined wit
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