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Greene's. He writes in response to my request, "I have never found 

 the slightest trace of the bird there." This is strange, as the Oke- 

 fenokee would seem to be typical habitat for the Wayne's Warbler, 

 but it evidently does not occur there. 



Courtship. — Nothing is known of the courtship behavior of this 

 bird, owing to the difficulty of observation, the very restricted range 

 of the bird, and the dearth of local observers. 



Nesting. — ^Wayne was under the impression that he was the dis- 

 coverer of the first known nest of this race, but search of the literature 

 reveals that he was in error, though the first nests found were not 

 recognized as those of loaynei. Wayne secured the first eggs, and 

 these still appear to be the only ones in existence, as all other breeding 

 records deal with young birds. Authentic breeding information is 

 exceedingly scanty, and since this is the case, all of the instances are 

 mentioned herewith. 



The first recorded breeding was in coastal North Carolina, and is 

 mentioned by Pearson and the Brimleys (1919). They included it 

 under the black-throated green warbler, as the species at that time had 

 not been divided into two races. One nest was found at La Grange, 

 Lenoir County, in June 1905 (Smithwick), and the other at Lake 

 Ellis, Craven County, June 1910. Adults were seen feeding very 

 young birds. 



Continually impressed with the birds' presence in coastal South 

 Carolina so late in spring, Wayne sought evidences of nesting and, on 

 April 11, 1917, saw a female carrying nesting material in a large 

 cypress swamp in Charleston County, but could not locate the nest. 

 On the twenty-eighth of the same month he detected both a male and 

 female in the same procedure but again failed to find the nest. His 

 (1918) comment on this follows: "The brief account of this bird 

 written in 'Birds of South Carolina' is, in the main, correct. Al- 

 though I had never found it breeding when the book went to the press 

 I was absolutely certain that it really bred on the coast." A year 

 later, on April 28, 1918, he saw another female engaged in nest build- 

 ing, and again was unable to find the nest. Those who knew Wayne's 

 untiring energy in such work can readily understand the extreme 

 difficulty experienced in locating this elusive bird's home. It was 

 on this last date that he secured the type specimen from which Bangs 

 described the race. The following year finally brought success. 

 Wayne (1919) states: 



"On March 20, 1919, 1 visited the place where the type specimen was 

 taken. * * * ^ ^^^ males were heard singing from the topmost 

 branches of tall, gigantic, deciduous trees, and were also seen to fly 

 into very tall pines." He again visited this spot on April eighteenth 

 with Henry Moessner and the latter located a nest. It "was built in a 



