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The White-Throat builds in some low bush or briar, two or three feet from the ground. The materials in the nest before me are chiefly the dried stems of woodroof and goosegrass, mixed with other small stems, and bound together with spiders' webs. A thin coat of these substances serves for the whole nest, there being only a few hairs put upon it for a lining; so that the whole, when finished, if held up against the light, appears like a piece of indifferent netting: but, by reason of the roughness of the goosegrass, and the tenacity of the spiders' webs, the nest retains its figure after handling, much better than many others which are of a heavier make. The White-Throat lays five or six eggs, of a dull green-gray, thickly spotted with brown spots.