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unique; but the type — if, indeed, any can be established — finds equally near 

 approaches amcng them all. Nests may, however, in most cases be relied 

 upon, especially when procured from proximate localities. 



In the case of the young, both before and after they leave the 

 nest, this bird displays no exceptional traits. Both old and young, 

 when the latter have become able to take care of themselves, join 

 the immense congregations of mingled warblers, wrens, titmice, 

 sparrows, and woodpeckers, which collect in the northern forests 

 in early August, to be dispersed — most of them southward — by 

 the first frosts of September. 



85. THE CAPE MAY WARBLER. 



DENDRCECA TIGRINA {Gm.) Baird. 

 Spotted Creeper (Jamaica). 



The Cape May warbler is found only east of the Mississippi, 

 north to Lake Winnipeg and Hudson's bay, breeding from north- 

 ern New England northward, and nowhere abimdant even in the 

 migrations. It winters and also breeds in various West Indian 

 Islands. 



There is httle assurance of its home having been found more 

 than once in the United States, — the single instance being the 

 discovery by Mr. H. B. Bailey of a nest of this species on the 

 Richardson lakes in the northwestern part of Maine. Mr. May- 

 nard also felt confident that they were breeding at Lake Umbagog, 

 while Mr. H. D. Minot states that it has been found breeding in 

 the neighborhood of Boston, but fails to particularize. 



That it breeds in Jamaica and St. Domingo islands. West Indies, 

 is well attested. Mr. W. T. March, according to Dr. Brewer's 

 quotations, has met with several instances in the elevated parts of 

 Jamaica. The nests are described as found in bushes or trees, and 

 wrought of long and thin strips of flexible bark, stoutly and firmly 

 interwoven, with an intermingling of lichens, mosses, and bark of 

 deciduous trees. The long and deep cavities are lined with more 

 delicate strips than are found in the exterior. Mr. Bailey's nest 



