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eggs, and this was probably tbe second 

 set. 



BAY-BREASTED WARBLER. 

 Rare migrant. May 28, 1897 a speci- 

 men was taken by W. F. Burbank in 

 Lewiston, and May 29, 1897, I saw one. 

 May 10, 1899 one was seen by C. D. 

 FaiTar in Lewiston. A female speci- 

 men in my collection was taken in 

 Lewiston May 20, 1900. May 24 I saw a 

 male and May 25 another. 



BLACKPOLL WARBLER. 

 Fairly common migrant. May 9 is 

 my first date of its arrival, and May 30 

 the latest. Last seen in the spring 

 June 5, and last seen in the fall Sep- 

 tember 8. 



BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. 

 Usually not very common, but were 

 common in the spring of 1900. My 

 earliest date of its arrival is May 10, 

 and last seen May 28. I have no fall 

 data. June 30, 1894, I saw some war- 

 blers in tall pines near Lewiston. two 

 of which I identified as Blackburn's, 

 and I think they were breeding there. 



BLACK-THROATED GREEN 

 WARBLER. 

 Common migrant and fairly common 

 summer resident. My earliest date of 

 its arrival is May 2, and the latest is 

 May 15. Oct. 2 is the latest fall record 

 I have. June 4 is the earliest I have 

 found eggs. I found my first nest in 

 Lewiston, June 6, 1895. The nest was 

 composed of twigs and strips of birch 

 and bark, lined with horsehairs and a 

 few feathers, situated on a horizontal 

 limb of a hemlock tree — three feet from 

 the trunk, and fifteen feet high. In 

 the nest was three fresh eggs of this 

 warbler and one of the cowbird which 

 was well incubated. The eggs measure 

 .66X.49, .65X.49, .65x.49 in. June 19, 

 1895, a second set was found. The nest 

 was composed of fine roots, twigs, fine 



grass, bits of cotton and strips of white 

 birch, lined with horsehair, and situ- 

 ated 11 ft high on a horizontal limb of 

 a hemlock tree. The set contained a 

 runt egg, being spotted heavily on the 

 small end and it had no volk in it. 

 The eggs measure .69x.50, .67x.49, .66^ 

 .49 and .45x.34 in. Of eleven nests I 

 have found six were in hemlock trees 

 two in pine, one in a white birch, one 

 in a maple and one in a hackmatack 

 tree. Most of them were built quite 

 low, the lowest being 10 ft. high and 

 the highest 33 ft. high. One found 

 June 9, 1900, contained five eggs and 

 as I could not get a picture of it in the 

 tree I took it out in the sun on a sand 

 bank. July 1. 1900, I found a nest on 

 which I exposed six plates 2i to 3 ft. 

 away with the female sitting on the 

 nest but as it was in the woods in the 

 shade, they were not exposed long 

 enough and I developed nothing. 



PINE WARBLER. 

 Common migrant and fairly common 

 summer resident, as I see a few nearly 

 every summer, although I have not 

 been lucky enough to find its nest. 

 My earliest date of its arrival is April 

 14 and its latest April 30 and the latest 

 I have seen it in the fall is Sept. 23. 

 June 16, 1894, I saw a pine warbler in 

 some pines near Lewiston which had 

 something in its mouth to feed its 

 young and it kept chipping around but 

 I could not find its nest. June 2, 1899, 

 I saw a pair near a small pond catch- 

 ing insects to feed their young. They 

 would catch quite a number of insects 

 which would be protruding from each 

 side of their bills and then fly away to 

 their nest, but I could not seem to 

 trace them up. 



YELLOW PALM WARBLER. 

 Common migrant. My earliest date 

 of its aiTival is April 12 and seen May 

 20. Earliest seen in the fall Sept. 28 

 and latest seen Oct. 27. 



