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extent of territory. "Wilson met with it in Pennsylvania during the last of 

 April and the tii'st of May, believing it to be only a migrant species on its 

 way to more northern regions. Nuttall was sceptical of these conclusions, 

 as he never met with the species in the New England States. Audul)oij 

 observed these birds in tlieir migrations through Louisiana, which State they 

 entered from Texas in the month of April. He procured several specimens 

 in Louisiana and Kentucky, and one in New Jersey. He knew nothing as 

 to its breeding, and seems to have accepted Wilson's inferences in regard to 

 its northern migrations. He never met with this bird in the fall, when, if a 

 Northern species, it sliould be returning south, and thence inferred that it 

 migrated by night. 



Professor Baird has obtained this bird near Carlisle, Penn., in July, 

 rendering probable its breeding in that vicinity. W. S. Wood met with 

 it near St. Louis, May 13, 1857, and two days previously in the same 

 year Mr. Kennicott procured an individual in Southern Illinois. Occa- 

 sionally specimens have been oljtained in Massachusetts, and of late these 

 occurrences have become more frequent or more observed. It was first 

 noticed near Boston by J. Eliot Cabot, Esq., who shot one in May, 1838, 

 near Fresh Pond. This was, he thinks, on the 20th of that month. Since 

 tlien jMr. J. A. Allen has known of several specimens taken witliin the 

 State. Mr. Jillson has observed it spending the summer in Bolton, and 

 evidently breeding, as has also Mr. Allen at Springfield, and Mr. Bennett at 

 Holyoke. In the sunnner of 1870, Mr. Maynard obtained its nest and eggs 

 in Newton. 



The late Dr. (lerhardt i'ound it breeding among the higli grounds of North- 

 ern Georgia. It lias also been taken at Eacine, Wis., by l^r. Hoy, and in 

 Ohio. These data seem to show that it is sparingly found from Georgia to 

 JNfassachusetts, and from New Jersey to IVIissouri and Wisconsin. Its west- 

 ern limits may be more extended. It was not met with by any of the ex- 

 ])loring parties beyond St. Louis, but its retiring habits and its sparse distri- 

 bution may account for this. 



Dr. Samuel Cabot was tlie first naturalist to meet witli the nest and eggs 

 of this l)ird. This was in May, 1837, in Greenbrier County, Va. The nest 

 was constructed in the midst of a low bush on higli ground, and contained 

 four eggs. 



The late Dr. Alexander Gerhardt found the nest and eggs of this Warbler 

 in the spring of 18.")!), in Whitfield County, Ga. It contained four eggs, and 

 was built on tlie ground. It was very large for the bird, being five inches in 

 height and four in (bameter. Tlie cavity was also (piite large and deep for 

 so small a Itird, exceetling three inches both in depth and in diameter. The 

 outer and under portions of this nest were almost entirely composed of the 

 dry leaves of several kinds of deciduous trees. Tliese were interwoven with 

 and strongly bound together by black vegetable roots, dry sedges, and fine 

 strips of pliant bark, and the whole lined with a close network of fine 



