THE AUK: 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



Vol. XXXIII. January, 1916. No. 1, 



THE TENNESSEE WARBLER IN NEW BRUNSWICK. 



BY B. S. BOWDISH AND P. B. PHILIPP. 



Plate I. 



During an expedition made by Messrs. T. F. Wilcox and P. B. 

 Philipp to northern New Brunswick in 1914, two male Tennessee 

 Warblers (Vermivora peregrina) were secured in breeding condi- 

 tion. No females were taken and no nests were found, but the 

 birds were believed to have certainly been breeding, both because 

 of the condition of the specimens taken, and the persistence of 

 the males in remaining day after day in or about the small areas 

 where they were first noted. 



In June, 1915, a visit was made by the authors to the same 

 locahty for the purpose of obtaining data as to the breeding habits 

 of the species. The number of nests found and the consequent 

 amount of breeding data collected are thought sufficient to warrant 

 the publication of the present notes, especially in view of the 

 meagreness of the published accounts of the breeding habits of 

 this none too common bird. 



The region in question is particularly well adapted to the nesting 

 requirements of the Tennessee Warbler, as we noted them during 

 the above period. Extensive lumbering has removed the greater 

 part of the large growth spruce and balsam timber, which forms 

 the great bulk of the forests of this region, leaving areas of small 

 trees, which, in the older clearings, have grown thickly, and to an 



