than the porcelain whiteness of the Yellow-throats eggs. They are also shorter. The bird was a close sitter and when flushed jumped into the bushes and remain- ed quiet for sometime. I sat down and waited for a few minutes and then I noticed her jumping about in the bushes only three or four feet from the nest. Soon afterwards she uttered her chirp and hop- ed about in and out among the bushes never over five or six feet from where the nest had been. I removed the nest when she was probably not over three feet from me in the dense wild blackberry vines. I noted her color etc. during this time and I am sure I have the correct species! I have seen a bird a few times when going down to the kilns