. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. JfORTll AMERICAS IllUUH. 445 )er. Foui iillt In i\w titeen fet nterwovj'ii vere built. era. Tin- Ih larger. in April, round and ng neatly acroHH ggH have II th shadeH ome cggH ". Werner HH (Omel.) oni North- nd Central ted States oat sure to irt of May nt species, rn Illinois. Olilo. Tlie erous tree, w down as h1i, Maine, \\ nest is a , wool and mber, and The mark- irming in- cur single .) Geog. to Sitlta, to North- habits the described iilac-gray; g. Dist.— ms to the .t'?/'V,. (i07. Ulac
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. JfORTll AMERICAS IllUUH. 445 )er. Foui iillt In i\w titeen fet nterwovj'ii vere built. era. Tin- Ih larger. in April, round and ng neatly acroHH ggH have II th shadeH ome cggH ". Werner HH (Omel.) oni North- nd Central ted States oat sure to irt of May nt species, rn Illinois. Olilo. Tlie erous tree, w down as h1i, Maine, \\ nest is a , wool and mber, and The mark- irming in- cur single .) Geog. to Sitlta, to North- habits the described iilac-gray; g. Dist.— ms to the .t'?/'V,. (i07. Ulack-throatrd Gkesn Wakulkr (From Urehm.) Two nests of the Western Warbler were found by C. A. Allen during the season of 1886, in Blue Canon, California. The first contained two eggs June 4, and was left (or a full set. Three days after it was found in a dilapidated condition and the eggs destroyed, evidently the work of squirrels. The eggs, however, are described as resembling those of the Yellow Warbler, />. (mliva, but were more heavily marked. Another nest was found .Tune 7, containing three young birds and one was found seven or eight years previous also containing three young. These nests were all placed and well concealed in "pitch pines" from twenty-flve to forty feet above the ground on thick, scraggy limbs, and very difllcuit to And. The cavity of the nest taken June 7, 1886, measures deep by across; external diameter by in depth. It was composed of flbrous stalks of plants, flne dead twigs, lichens, a little cotton twine, and is lined with soft inner bark and hair. Major Bendire had what he believed to be a set of the eggs of this Warbler taken ut Big Meadows, Oregon, on the banks of the Des Chutes River near its head waters, June 12, 1882. The nest was placed in the crotch of a willow overhanging the water, and the parent was shot but fell into the water and was carried away. The eggs are described as being about the size o
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