BIRDS OF MAINE. 117 



Piscataquis, "comniOD, breeds" (Homer); Sagadahoc, "common summer 

 resideut" (Spinuey) ; Somerset, "quite common summer resideut" 

 (Morrell) ; Washington, "abundant summer resident" (Boardinan) ; 

 York, "migrant" (Adams). 



283. (671). Dendroica vigorsii (^4Mf?.). Pine Warbler. 

 The Pine-creepiug Warbler is quite a common summer resident 



of most portions of the state, although beiug iuclined to occur 

 locally aud, as its uame would indicate, iu pine forests. 



County Records. — Androscoggin, "fairl}' common summer resident" 

 (Johnson) ; Cumberland, "common summer resideut, one nest" (Mead) ; 

 Franklin, "rare migrant" (Richards) ; Kennebec, "very rare summer 

 resident'' (Powers) ; Oxford, "breeds rarely'' (Nash); Penobscot, "quite 

 rare summer resident" (Knight) ; Sagadahoc, "common migrant'' 

 (Spinuey); Washington, "very rare, one specimen" (Boardman) ; York, 

 "common migrant" (Adams). 



284. (672 a). Dendroica palmarum hypochrysea Ridgiv. 

 Yellow Palm Warbler. 



One of our commonest Warblers duriug the migrations. Its 

 chestnut poll, yellow breast streaked with dusky, flycatcher-like 

 actions, and its constant habit of twitching its tail render it one of 

 the most easily identified of our Warblers. It is oue of the first 

 Warblers to arrive from the south, being on band by the last of 

 April or sometimes as early as the 20th, while in the fall it does 

 not depart till late October. The fagt that this species nests on 

 the ground makes its nest comparatively difficult to discover, and 

 it is only within the past four 3'ears that it has been ascertained 

 to be quite a common breeder of local distribution, within a few 

 counties of the Cauaoliau fauna. Bangor is the southernmost local- 

 ity where it occurs at all commonly in the breeding season, and 

 here its abundance is limited to the precincts of a large juniper bog, 

 locally known as Orono Bog. Mr. Chas. H. Whitman of Bangor 

 first found a nest with 3'ouug of this bird at the above locality. 

 Since then I have had the pleasure of taking two sets of their eggs, 

 both in early June, and examining a number of nests with young. 

 I have found nests with young on Memorial Day. (For records 

 Cf. Knight, The Oologist, February, 1893, p. 54, and The Nidol- 

 ogist, June, 1895, p. 140). The number of birds breeding here 

 varies from year to year, but even when the}' are rarest a person 

 cannot walk one-fourth mile in this bog without seeing one or more 

 of them. As it is nearly seven miles long, though interrupted by 



