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States, in the spring and fall passing to the north of tlie 42d parallel to 

 breed. The hrst specimen was obtained near the extreme southern point of 

 New Jersey by George Ord, in ISll, and described and figured liy Wilson. 

 From tliis accidental circumstance it derives its inapproi)riate name of (_'ape 

 ]May Warbler. Wilson never met with a second specimen, and Mr. Nuttall 

 was wholly unaccpiainted with it. ^Ir. Audubon al.so never met with a speci- 

 men in all his wanderings, and was able to add nothing to its history. Those 

 figured by him were procured by Mr. Edward Harris, near Philadelphia, 

 through which region these birds appear to pass rapidly in their northern 

 migrations. 



Mr. J. A. Allen obtained a .specimen near Springfield, Mass., May 15, 

 1863, and specimens have also been procured at East Windsor Hill, Conn., 

 by Dr. Wood. It was not met with in Western Maine by Mr. Verrill, hut in 

 Eastern IMaine and in Xew Brunswick Mv. Boardman has found it a not un- 

 common summer visitant, tliough of irregular frequency. He lias no doubt 

 tliat tliey remain there to breed. They reach Calais as early as the second 

 week in ]May, or as early as their appearance usually in the neigliliorhood of 

 I'hiladeljDliia has been noticed. Mr. Kumlien has also obtained specimens 

 from year to year, aliout the middle of May, in Southern Wisconsin, where 

 they do not remain to breed, and Mr. Eidgway lias taken them in the 

 beginning of May in Southern Illinois. 



It is also by no means uncommon in Cuba ; was met l^y the Newtons as 

 a migrant in St. Croix, and is not only one of the Ijirils of Jamaica, but is 

 resident and breeds in the highlands of that island. It is not known to 

 occur in Central America, ]\Iexico, or west of the Mississippi Eiver. Speci- 

 mens were procured at Moose Factory about May 28. 



Its nests and eggs have not been, witli certainty, obtained in the United 

 States, though an egg obtained in Co^•entry, Vt., in 18l:iG, and attributed at 

 the time to tins bird, closely resembles its identified eggs from Jamaica. 

 Specimens of the bird, as well as its nests and eggs, have also been received 

 from St. Domingo by Mr. Turnbull of Philadelphia. In the summer of 

 1871 a nest of this species was found by ilr. H. B. Bailey on the Richard- 

 son Lakes, in the extreme northwestern part of Maine. The nest was in a 

 low spruce-tree, less than five feet from the ground, and when found con- 

 tained only a single egg. Unfortunately it was left until more eggs were 

 deposited, and in the mean while the tree was cut, and the nest and eggs were 

 destroyed. 



Mr. W. T. March of Jamaica, in his notes on the liirds of that island, 

 states that this species may always be found, in its various changes ol' plu- 

 mage, about the mangrove swamps and river-banks. During the sununer 

 months it was connnon about Healthshire and Great Salt Pond, and at other 

 times very generally distributed over the island. He also met with several 

 specimens of its nests and eggs, hut their position was not stated. The nests 

 had apparently been taken from a bush or tree, were three and one fourth 



