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IX. PERISSOGLOSSA* 



A. TIGRINA. Cape May Warbler. In Massachusetts, 

 generally extremely rare, especially in autumn. In summer, 

 " common at Umbagog," Maine.f 



a. 5-5| inches long. Above, yellowish olive ; back, dark- 

 streaked. Crown, dark. Lores, black. Beneath, bright yellow. 

 Breast and sides, black-streaked. Throat strongly tinged with 

 the bright orange brown of the ear-coverts. Rump, yellow. 

 Wing-bars and tail-spots, white ; former often fused. 



• 6. A nest found in the neighborhood of Boston closely 

 resembled that of the Yellowbird (X, A) in every respect. J 

 The five eggs, which were fresh in the first week of June, also 

 were like those of that species, and probably unlike the usual 

 form, described by Dr. Brewer as measuring " .70 X .55 of 

 an inch," and having " a pinkish white ground, blotched with 

 purple and brown of various shades and tints. They are dis- 

 posed chiefly about the larger end, usually in a ring." 



c. The Cape May Warblers are very rare in Massachusetts, 

 more so, however, during some years than during others, and 

 are so very seldom to be seen near Boston that I have no in- 

 formation to offer to my readers in regard to their habits. 

 Mr. Maynard has never seen them in the eastern part of this 

 State, where, however, some were shot from (blossoming?) 

 apple trees by Dr. Bryant, but he found them common at 

 Umbagog, Maine, where they spent their time in the tops of 

 the taller evergreens. In northern New England they are 

 summer residents, but in the southern parts can hardly be con- 

 sidered as other than very rare migrants. I have occasionally 

 seen them in May, but only once in September, which is j^artly 

 due to their frequenting so much the higher branches, where 

 they are not easily detected. 



* Now a subgenus of Dendroica. latter region before 1879, and since tliat 

 t A late spring and early autumn year I have never detected it in sum- 

 migrant, usually of great rarity. In nier in any part of New England, al- 

 1862 Mr. Boardman reported it a com- though there can be little doubt that 

 mon " summer visitant " to Calais, it still breeds in some of our remote 

 Maine, and from 1S71 to 1875 it bred northern forests. — W. B. 



really abundantly throughout the conif- f This account cannot be received 



erous forests about Lake Umbagog, in with much confidence, for it omits to 

 western Maine. It utterly deserted the state by whom the nest was found, 



