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Title: The Oölogist for the student of birds, their nests and eggs
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: Lattin, Frank H
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: Albion, N.Y. : Frank H. Lattin
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d BlueWarblers. On this particular afternoon whilegoing through some heavy buck laurelin the hemlocks to get behind a treeon the edge of a deep pool I flusheda bird off its nest. This nest was 20inched up in the top of a low clusterof laurels. It was a bulky nest ofgrass and the four eggs were spottedand wreathed. It looked more like aMourning Warblers nest than any-thing I could think of, so I sat down,and in a few minutes the female re-turned. Owing to the shade and thestate of the weather and the fact thatshe kept low down in the laurels Icould not identify her and she didntlook just right for a Mourner. Several days later on a clear sunnyday I returned and was surprised tofind a Yellow-throat at home. It cer-tainly pays to positively identify allfinds. The Yellowthroat is one of ourcommonest and best distributed warb-lers in the summer and is found every-where in bushy or weedy places. It isone of the common birds in the slash-ings and on the fire swept barrens and 44 THE OOLOGIST
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THE OOLOGIST 45 huckleberry ridges it is one of tliefew birds to be found. It is entirely absent in heavy growth.It nests on the ground and in lowbrush. Its eggs 4 to 5 in number aremarked only by a few dark dots aboutthe larger end. This particular Yellowthroats nestdiffers entirely from the ordinaryYellowthroats nests in being in laurelin quite heavy hemlock timber. Thenest was larger than usual and theeggs unusually large. It is the onlyset of Yellowthroats that I ever foundthat was spotted and wreathed. Theyarrive the first week in May and de-part late in September. Very oftenthey are imposed upon by the Cowbird.R. B. Simpson,Warren, Pa. TWO DAYS AFIELD The First in the District of Columbia and the Second in New Jersey; A Comparison. On the morning of April 16th, 1916,Mr. B. S. Taubenhaus and myself leftthe 33d Street Station of the Pennsyl-vania R, R. at 12:20 a. m. for thepurpose of gathering information re-garding the status of the migratoryaspect of the section of the Dis-tric

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