. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 441 660. BAY-BBEASTED WABBLEB.' Deiidroica castanca (Wils.) Geog. Dist.—Eastern North America. Breeds from Northern New England and Northern Michigan northward to Hudson Bay; south in winter through Eastern Mexico and Central America. The Bay-Breasted Warbler is known to breed from Northern New England and Northern Michigan northward. Mr. William L. Kells found it breeding in the vicinity of Listowel, Ontario, in low, swampy woods, where there is a mixture of evergreens, ash, birch, elm and other trees. The nests are
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 441 660. BAY-BBEASTED WABBLEB.' Deiidroica castanca (Wils.) Geog. Dist.—Eastern North America. Breeds from Northern New England and Northern Michigan northward to Hudson Bay; south in winter through Eastern Mexico and Central America. The Bay-Breasted Warbler is known to breed from Northern New England and Northern Michigan northward. Mr. William L. Kells found it breeding in the vicinity of Listowel, Ontario, in low, swampy woods, where there is a mixture of evergreens, ash, birch, elm and other trees. The nests are compact, cup-shaped structures, usually placed in coniferous trees from five to fifteen or even twenty feet above the ground. Mr. Kells found a nest placed between a slender limb and the trunk of a small cedar about five feet up; another was found in a hemlock at an elevation of fourteen feet. The nest is composed of fine shreds of bark, small twigs, fibrous roots and pine hair; the interior is a little more than two inches in diameter by one in depth. The eggs are deposited in the latter half of May or first half of June. Four is the usual number laid; they are white, with a bluish tinge, finely speckled on or round the larger end with reddish-brown; average size . inches. 661. BLACK-POLL WABBLEB. Dendroica striata (Forst.) Geog. Dist.— Eastern and Northern North America, breeding from Northern New England, Lab- rador, etc., to coast of Alaska (north of the Alaskan Peninsula) and to the Arctic Ocean; accidental in Greenland. In winter, south to Bahamas, Cuba and Northern South America. T! In the United States the Black-poll Warbler is known as a spring and fall migrant, except in Northern New England, where a few pair remain to breed. Its breeding grounds are from thence northward into the Arctic regions. The nests are usually built in the month of June, and are placed in low, thick spruce trees about eight feet from the ground. They are made of small twigs, lichens
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