g8 The Ottawa Naturalist. [August 



found July 15th was placed in the side of a small mound, and was 

 well concealed by mosses and overhanging ferns. The nest was 

 composed of grasses and moss and lined with truit stems of hair 

 moss. The female flushed from the nest and disappeared among 

 the numerous, small evergreen bushes that grew near the nest, 

 nor did she put in an appearance during the half hour I stayed 

 near. The nest measured, outside diameter 3 inches, inside 1.75, 

 outside depth 2 inches, inside i inch, and contained three eggs, 

 white, marked with rufous and cinnamon-brown, chiefly about the 

 larger end. 



Tennessee Warbler, Helminthophila paregrina. 



Have observed this rather rare species but have never become 

 acquainted with its habits. It arrives late in May or early June. 



Parula Warbler, Comsopthlypis americana. 



A fairly common migrant and summer resident, arriving here 

 the first half May. Its shivering skew-ee-oo song is most often 

 emitted from a high perch in tall trees. The writer has found 

 two nests of this species, one of which was situated forty feet up 

 in a yellow birch tree, the other was twenty feet up in a beech. 

 Both nests were made in Usnea lichen where it hung below the 

 limb on which it grew. The lichen had been shaped at a distance 

 of four to six inches below the limbs, and sewn with horse hairs 

 to keep in shape for a nest. The cavity of the nest in the beech 

 measured an inch and one half in both depth and diameter, and 

 contained four eggs, white with rufous markings about the larger 

 end. 



The last bird observed during igo2 was on September 17th. 



Cape May Warbler, Dendroica tigrina. 



As a rule this species is a rare summer resident. But during 

 the summer of 1902 it was tolerably common. The first spring 

 migrant recorded that season was on May 17th. It frequents 

 young evergreen thickets, and in such places one may hear their 

 seep, seep, seep, seep, of a song and the bird be entirely hidden 

 from view. 



Yellow Warbler, Dendroica cBstiva. 



After May 20 this species is a common summer resident along 

 the river valleys, where it breeds in the shrubbery and is especially 



