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friend, the late William Brewster. I gave the bird to him in the 

 flesh, and in his collection it still remains. The nest and eggs have 

 remained unknown until brought to light by this season's research." 



Russell Richardson (1926) reported black- throated green warblers 

 in the Dismal Swamp, on the North Carolina side, in June. No 

 evidence of nesting was found by him, and he did not, apparently, 

 realize that the birds he saw were waynei. In 1932 Drs. W. R. Mc- 

 Ilwaine and J. J. Murray visited Dismal Swamp on May 23-26, and 

 "found Wayne's warblers rather common." From Murray (1932) we 

 find that they "heard two singing males on ]\Iay 23rd as we came down 

 the Washington Ditch to the Lake; two males singing on the 24th 

 near the entrance to the Feeder Ditch * * * r^^^^ gj^ males on the 

 26th." They also found two family parties of adults feeding small 

 birds on the 24th. One of these parties was near the mouth of the 

 Feeder Ditch; the other a half mile up the Jericho Ditch from the 

 Lake (Drummond). * * * The young birds were out of the nest 

 and could fly well. They looked like big bumble-bees buzzing across 

 from one tree to another ; staying rather high up. The adults ranged 

 low in gathering food, both male and female feeding the young birds." 



Eggs. — The eggs of loaynei are similar to those of virens. Wayne 

 has described them (1919) as "of a white or whitish color speckled 

 and spotted in the form of a wreath around the larger end with 

 brownish red and lilac." The sets previously described are the only 

 ones of which the writer is aware, and may be the only ones in collec- 

 tions. Whether any have ever been secured outside of South Carolina 

 is doubtful. Measurements of Wayne's two sets average 16.79 by 12.25 

 and 15.12 by 12.03 mm., a trifle under the average for eggs of virens. 

 The breeding records for the Dismal Swamp (Virginia) and two 

 localities in North Carolina, concern young birds only. 



Plumages. — Data available are not sufficient for a detailed descrip- 

 tion of the plumages but they are probably the same as those of virens. 



Food. — No positive information on the food of waynei exists, as 

 far as I can ascertain, except that in July 1939, G. H. Jensen ex- 

 amined the stomach contents of a single specimen secured by Howell 

 and Burleigh at Murrells Inlet, S. C, June 5, 1932. It was full and 

 contained 100 percent animal matter, consisting of 3 Lepidoptera 

 larvae, 98 percent ; 1 Formica sp., 2 percent. That the race is insectiv- 

 orus goes without saying, but more than that remains to be worked 

 out. Howell (1932) cites Barrows as saying that virens consumes 

 plant lice, span-worms, and leaf-rollers together with berries of poison 

 ivy. Probably waynei indulges similar tastes. 



Belmvior. — Wayne's warbler is essentially a high-ranging bird. It 

 spends much of its time amid the topmost branches of cypress, mag- 

 nolia, gum, and other swamp trees, rarely descending to even mid- 



