112 SYLVICOLID^ : AMERICAN WARBLERS. 



1879, P- 2^5)- ^^- ^' ■^' Samuels, M'hose account 

 had been discredited, states that he found some of the 

 birds at Dedham, Mass., in the middle of May, 1857 ; 

 and Dr. Brewer, in the last of tlie Supplements in 

 which he endeavored to retrieve his blunders and 

 catch up with the times, speaks of a specimen in the 

 collection of the Boston Society of Natural History 

 procured at Dedham, and of another shot at West 

 Roxbury by Mr. C. N. Hammond — such record hav- 

 ing been made by Mr. Ruthven Deane (Bull. Nutt. 

 Club, iii, 1878, p. 188). The species is not in any 

 Maine or New Hampshire list that I know of. The 

 Connecticut record is extensive and explicit. Accord- 

 ing to Mr. Merriam, the bird is a summer resident and 

 a breeder in southern Connecticut and in the Con- 

 necticut Valley (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, p. 14) ; Mr. 

 J. N. Clark found it breeding regularly and in con- 

 siderable numbers at Saybrook (Am. Nat., vii, 1873, 

 p. 692) ; Mr. L. C. Bragg took it at New Haven, 

 May 12, 1876 ; Mr. W. R. Nichols, at Branford, May 

 12, 1877 ; and Mr. Merriam himself at New Haven, 

 May 24, 1876, and June 23, 1877. The last was an 

 interesting capture, as that of an individual which 

 "unquestionably had a nest in the immediate vicinity." 

 Dr. Brewer records the finding of a nest near New 

 Haven by N. A. Eddy, June 14, 1879. This nest 

 was taken, together with the female parent, on the 

 20th, by which time it contained 4 eggs. It was found 

 in an old orchard, half a mile from the coast of Long 

 Island Sound;. built on the ground, in the grass, at 

 the foot of a small bush, and was loosely constructed 

 of oak-leaves. The eggs were white, with red dots 

 wreathed around the larger end, and also a few spots 



