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"May 14, 1893. Took nest No. 5 this morning; it con- 

 tained bits of egg shells. The nest was found building 

 on the 20th of April and examined on the 8th of May — 

 eighteen days from the first day the bird was seen 

 building. The eggs must have been destroyed by a jay 

 or in some unaccountable way, for they could hardly 

 have hatched and the young have left the nest in less than 

 three weeks. 



No. 142. Female. Greensboro. May 20, 1889. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 430. Male. Greensboro. Mar. 26, 1890. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 870. Sex (?). Anniston. June 28, 1891. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 1059. Female. Greensboro. May 6, 1893. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 1062. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 4, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



178. DENDROICA VIRENS (Gmelin"). 

 Black-throated Green Warbler. 



"Not common. Spring and autumn migrant. Arrives 

 later than any warbler, except the myrtle and palm war- 

 blers in the fall. First seen this fall, October 16, last 

 met with October 24. On October 23, a cold day, I ob- 

 served, in the town of Greensboro, four of these war- 

 blers busily searching the leaves of a shade tree for 

 insects. They were so gentle that one might stand with 

 his face within two or three feet of them, as they hopped 

 about on the lowest branches of the tree just over the edge 

 of the sidewalk." (1891c). 



No. 497. Male. Greensboro. May 4, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 498. (?) Female. Greensboro. May 4, 1890. W. C. 

 Avery. 



No. 499. Female. Greensboro. May 4, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1072. Sex (?). Greensboro. Sept. 27, 1893. W.C.Avery. 

 No. 1078. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 8, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1083 (?). Male. Greensboro. Oct. 10, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1084. Male. Greensboro. Oct. 10, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1085. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 10, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



No. 1093. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 18, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



179. DENDROICA VIGORSI (Audubon). 

 Pine Warbler. 



"Abundant. Resident. Breeds." (1891c). 



The first recorded capture of this bird was on Jan. 10, 

 1878, when specimen No. 39 (old series) was collected 

 at Greensboro. Mar. 18, 1888, Dr. Avery "found for 

 the first time nest of D. pinus, on a horizontal limb of a 



