CAPE MAY WARBLER. 
rump yellower; a yellow line over the eye; wing coverts 
tipped with dull white, under parts paler yellow streaked 
with sepia. Nest semi-pensile, built of fine grasses, 
twigs, and rootlets, fastened with spiders’ webs and fine 
plant fibres, and lined with horse hairs; it depends from 
the low branch of a tree in rather open woodlands, or 
sometimes the tree is an isolated one in the field. Egg 
buff white or light buff, slightly speckled with light 
purple madder or umber. The range of this Warbler is 
throughout eastern North America, north to Winnipeg 
and Hudson’s Bay; it breeds from northern New Eng- 
land north to the range limit, and winters in the -West 
Indies and Central America. Although this is a gen- 
erally rare bird, in the migratory seasons it will not 
infrequently be seen in association with some of the 
distinctive woodland Warblers; in summer it will be 
found among the higher branches of hemlocks, spruces, 
etc., on the borders of the forest, and also among the 
fruit trees of the orchard. 
The song of the Cape May is similar to those of the 
Black Poll and Black and White Warbler; but it is 
shorter, more monotonous, and is delivered with moder- 
ate speed and in softer tone of voice. As I have but one 
notation it is impossible for me to say that this is 
thoroughly representative: 
Three times Syd. 
Prof, A. W. Butler describes the song in the following 
syllables which seem to fit my notation tolerably well: 
“awit-awit awit-awit-awit.” Mr. Torrey saysin Spring 
Notes from Tennessee: ‘*The Magnolia and the Black- 
burnian were in high feather, and made a gorgeous pair 
as chance brought them side by side in the same tree, 
They sang with much freedom. But the Cape Mays 
kept silence, to my deep regret, notwithstanding the 
philosophical remarks just now volunteered about the 
advantages derivable from a bird’s gradual disclosure of 
himself, . . . The Cape May’s song is next to nothing, 
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