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lof the Pine Warbler in bciiiu; gray, but the female of the Phic Warbler 

 never has a yellowish rump nor is she streaked beneath. The young female 

 'Cape May more nearly resembles the Pine AVarblers, but even here the dusky 

 .stripings are always present in the Cape May. 



Xests and Ecifjs. Xests placed in trees composed of small pine twigs, 

 igrasses etc., dined with finer material ; they are rather deeply cup-shaped. 



Eggs, three or four in number, oval in form, dull white, often buffy or 

 .-gravish. Spotted and dotted around the large ead with reddish or dark brown 

 and lilac, sometimes with sn\aller markings or lines of blackish. Dimensions, 

 .70 by .52 to .73 by .55, 



General Habits, The Cape May Warblers are rare 

 :spring visitors to Eastern Massachusetts, appearing here, 

 when they come at all, in May with the blooming of the 

 apple trees, and the fiowers of these trees appear to be par- 

 ticularly attractive to them. 



My experience with the Cape May W^arblers, on what 

 was once their breedino; o-rounds in North Western Maine, 

 shows that here they lived in the tops of the high conifer- 

 ous trees of that region. This is, however, quite at variance 

 with my experience with them elsewhere. On Key Weet, 

 in autumn and winter, they frequent gardens about houses, 

 searching among the fruit trees for food, and appear to pre- 

 fer the more settled portions of the island. In spring, how- 

 ever, they may be found in almost every hammock through- 

 out Florida, feeding with other Warblers at moderate 

 heio^hts above the around. 



Throughout most of the Bahama Islands, where they 

 occur scatteringly during winter, they feed in the low scrub, 

 in company with other Warblers, but I found them very 

 abundant in February on the Island of Inagua feeding 

 in company with the Bahama Honey Creeper and Lyre- 

 tailed Hummingbird upon the sweet juices of a large tubu- 

 lar flower of a peculiar species of vine. 



In April I found them in great abundance on the Is- 

 land of Eleuthera feeding with some other Warblers, Honey 

 Creepers, and Hummingbirds, on the singular flowers of 



