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extent ol' territory. Wilson met witli it in I'ennsylvania clnring the last of 

 Ajiril and the tirst of May, believing it to l)e only a migrant species on its 

 way to more northern regions. Nnttall was sceptical of these conclusions, 

 as he never met with the species in the New England States. Audubon 

 observed these birds in their migrations through Louisiana, which State they 

 entered from Texas in the month of AprU. He procured several specimens 

 in Louisiana and Kentucky, and one in New Jersey. He knew nothing as 

 to its breeding, and seems to have accepted Wilson's inferences in regard to 

 its northern migrations. He never met with this bird in the fall, when, if a 

 Northern species, it sliould be returning soutii, and thence inferred that it 

 migrated by nig] it. 



Professor Baird has obtained this bird near Carlisle, Penn., in duly, 

 rendering probable its lireeding in that vicinity. W. S. Wood met with 

 it near St. Louis, May 13, 1X.57, and two days previously in the same 

 year Jlr. Keuuicott procured an individual in Southern Illinois. Occa- 

 sionally specimens have been obtained in Massachusetts, and of late these 

 occurrences have become more frequent or more observed. It was first 

 noticed near Boston by J. Eliot Cabot, Esq., who shot one in May, 1838, 

 near Fresh Poud. This was, he thinks, on the 20tli of that month. Since 

 then Mr. J. A. Allen has known of several specimens taken within the 

 State. Mr. Jillson has obser\'ed it sisending the summer in Bolton, and 

 evidently breeding, as has also Mr. Allen at Springfield, and Mr. Bennett at 

 Holyoke. In the sunmier of 1870, Mr. Maynard obtained its nest and eggs 

 in Newton. 



The late Dr. Gerhardt found it breeding among the high grounds of North- 

 ern Georgia. It has also been taken at Racine, AVis., by Dr. Hoy, and in 

 Ohio. These data seem to show that it is sparingly found from Georgia to 

 Massachusetts, and from New Jersey to Missouri and Wisconsin. Its west- 

 ern limits may be more extended. It was not met with by any of the ex- 

 ploring parties beyond St. Louis, but its retiring habits and its sparse distri- 

 bution may account for this. 



Dr. Samuel Cabot was the first naturalist to meet with the nest and eggs 

 of this bird. This was in May, 1837, in Greenbrier County, Va. The nest 

 was constructed in the midst of a low bush on high ground, and contained 

 four e"gs. 



The late Dr. Alexander Gerhardt found the nest and eggs of this Warbler 

 in the spring of 1859, in Whitfield County, Ga. It contained four eggs, and 

 was built on the gi'ound. It was very large for the bird, being five inches in 

 heiglit and four in diameter. The cavity was also quite large and deep for 

 so small a bird, exceeding three inches both in depth and in diameter. The 

 outer and under portions of this nest were almost entirely composed of the 

 dry leaves of several kinds of deciduous trees. These were interwoven with 

 and strongly bound together by black vegetable roots, dry sedges, and fine 

 strips of pliant bark, and the whole lined with a close network of fine 



