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the moss, and as it is rare and local outside of the pine barrens, they 

 are seldom found breeding out of this district. 



Mr. P. B. Pliilipp found them nesting regularlj', but not commonly, 

 at JSTewton, Sussex county, in June, 1906 and 1908, and Mr. F. M. 

 Chapman saw one at High Knob, in the same county, June 10th, 1890. 



In migration the Parula associates with the mixed Warbler throng 

 and exhibits no peculiarities of habit.^ 



650 Dendroica tigrina (Gmelin). 

 Cape May "Warbler. 



Adult male. — Length, 4.75-5.50. Wing, 2.85. Above, olive-green, shaded 

 with gray ; top of head, black ; lower rump, yellowish ; back obscurely spotted 

 with black ; wings and tail, dusky ; a broad white wing bar and white sub- 

 terminal spots on the three outer pairs of tail feathers ; sides of face, bright 

 chestnut ; line over the eye, yellow, largely suffused with chestnut, and a yellow 

 patch on the side of the neck below the chestnut ; under parts, pale yellow, be- 

 coming white on the middle of the abdomen and under tail-coverts ; throat, 

 bi'east and sides heavily streaked with black, the first sometimes washed with 

 chestnut. In autumn, much veiled with grayish edgings to the feathers. 



Adult female. — Much paler ; head, olive, spotted with dusky ; a faint yellow 

 streak over the eye, a pale yellow one on each side of the neck ; under surface, 

 white, in older birds more or less tinged with yellow and streaked with gwy 

 on the throat, breast and sides ; sides of face, gray. 



Youiig in first autumn. — Similar to adult female. 



Very rare transient visitant. 



Mr. Babson, in his Birds of Princeton, states that W. E. D. Scott 

 secured several specimens in the autumn. Thurber records one taken 

 at Chatham, Morris county, by Maj. Blanchet. Mr. Chapman ob- 

 tained one at Englewood, and Krider states that he has taken it in 

 Xew Jersey, hut so far as ] am aware no others have been recorded 

 from the State since the male described by Alex. "Wilson, which was 

 obtained by George Ord, in 1809, near Cape May, to which capture the 

 bird owes its name, and a female obtained by Chas. L. Bonaparte, at 

 Bordentown, May' 14th, about 1825. Recently Mr. Robt. T. Moore 

 obtained two at Haddonfield, September 22d, 1897, and October 2d, 

 1906 ; while Mr. S. N. Rhoads saw a male in full song at the same 

 place. May 15th, 1909. 



The chestnut ear patch is an excellent "ear mark" for identification. 



' Cf. Wilde. Auk, 1897, p. 289, and Wilson, Bull., XVII., p. 4, for good ac- 

 counts of its nesting in New Jersey. 



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