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bird in hand, some may consider it venturesome to hold it to be the Syca- 

 more Warbler, yet that is the natural assumption of the student of bird 

 ranges, and my determination, although I employ the caption of " Yellow- 

 throated Warbler." The Sycamore Warbler has never been recorded in 

 the state, and the above position will have to be adopted until a specimen is 

 taken. This Sycamore Warbler with the Golden-winged and Hooded 

 Warblers and other forms of the northern end of Cayuga Lake might tend 

 to substantiate the suspicion that some of the breeding forms and others 

 at the north end of this lake (but absent or rare at the southern end) enter 

 in their migration from Ohio and the west and not directly from the south. 

 The Sycamore Warbler occurs in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and in Ohio 

 to Lake Erie, and might stray eastward into the Upper Austral arm along 

 the south shore of Lake Ontario. 



The song of this individual hardly impressed us as like the Water-Thrush, 

 of which we had previously heard numerous breeding examples the same 

 day and for two days previous, nor of the Louisiana Water-Thrush, so 

 common here at Ithaca, nor of the form or quality of the Indigobird. It 

 sounded like a louder, fuller, and more ringing song of a Myrtle Warbler. 

 This comparison and our first identification of the song as that of the 

 Myrtle Warbler was made in entire ignorance of Mr. Andrew Allison's 

 characterization of the Myrtle's song as " not unlike that of the Sycamore 

 Warbler," and might be contributory evidence to prove our bird the Syca- 

 more Warbler. — A. H. Wright, Ithaca, N. Y. 



Nesting of the Myrtle Warbler in Southern Massachusetts. — The 



breeding of the Myrtle Warbler (Dendroica coronata) at Webster, Mass., 

 was an interesting event of the present season. On May 17 I noticed the 

 female carrying nesting material into a group of white pines that stood 

 on the edge of a pine grove of two or three acres. This grove adjoined an 

 open pasture. After considerable search I located the nest 40 feet up in 

 a white pine two feet in diameter. It was near the top of the tree. 



On May 29 my friend, E. H. Forbush, and myself climbed the tree and 

 found two eggs in the nest. 



The fact that the set was still incomplete after ten days (for on May 18 

 the female had her nest well along toward completion) is to be accounted 

 for probably by the excessive precipitation and cool, damp, backward 

 weather of the week of May 18. There were very heavy rains on two 

 days, while the general temperature was low throughout the week. 



The female sat on her eggs while the tree was climbed and only flew when 

 the nest-limb was jarred. 



The nest was 10 feet out on the limb and was snugly set in a crotch. It 

 was well built of rootlets, straws, and the like, and was heavily lined with 

 hens' feathers. A Bluebird's feather was worked into the outside of the 

 nest. The structure was deeply cupped and was very " snug," for its edge 

 all around was built to slightly overhang the interior. The eggs were 



