WARBLERS 499 



with black ; under tail coverts whitish. Plumage of adult female : grayish 

 olive above, brighter on rump ; wing coverts merely edged with whitish, the 

 band being narrower than in male ; below yellow, streaked with duskier 

 black than the male ; otherwise very similar to male. Immature plumage : 

 pale olive brown above ; wings olive brown, edged with olive yellow ; tail 

 clove brown, inner webs of feathers yellow, outer edged with olive yellow ; 

 below pale yellow, unstreaked to obsciu-ely streaked. Wing 2.70 ; tail 1.96. 



Geog. Dist. — Breeding from northern New England, northern Michigan 

 and northern Minnesota to New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Hudson Bay, Great 

 Slave Lake, and a few said to breed in the mountains of Jamaica; in other 

 words, a bird of eastern North America, west to the Plains ; in migration 

 passing southward, chiefly east of the Mississippi River ; wintering almost 

 entirely in the West Indies. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; rare migrant, (Johnson) ; one seen May 

 6, 1897, (Burbank). Aroostook; a male shot at Fort Fairfield, (Batchelder, 

 B. N. 0. C, 7, p. 110). Cumberland; common migrant, (Mead). Franklin; 

 rare migrant, (Richards). Hancock ; in June, 1899, I saw one of these 

 Warblers feeding young only a few hoiurs from the nest, (Mrs. W. H. Gard- 

 ner). Kennebec; (Gardiner Branch). Oxford; probably breeds, (Maynard, 

 L. B. C. Co., N. H. & 0. Co. Me. p. 13) ; from 1871 to 75 bred abundantly 

 about Lake Umbagog in Western Maine, but utterly deserted that region 

 before 1879, (Brewster, L. G. B. of N. E. p. 103). Piscataquis; rare, (Homer). 

 Sagadahoc; rare, (Spratt). Somerset; rare, one specimen taken August 22, 

 1893, (Morrell). Washington; summer resident of variable abundance, 

 (Boardman). 



The Cape May Warbler is a bird of which personally I have 

 little to say as derived from my own observations, as it is a 

 bird I have never seen in life. It must and should occur in 

 the Penobscot Valley, but like many other of the rarer or 

 evasive species it remains sought after for years and when once 

 discovered by the seeker turns up more frequently afterward. 

 The species is however rare and locally distributed in Maine, 

 judging by the data or lack of data at hand. 



Mr. Brewster in the Land and Game birds of New England, 

 p. 103, notes the fact that the species nested really abundantly 

 in western Maine near Lake Umbagog from 1871 to 1875 and 

 then deserted the region, and since 1897 he has never detected 

 it anywhere in New England in summer up to publication of 

 this note in 1895. The species seems to prefer to frequent the 

 tops of the evergreen trees in the more densely forested regions 



