SYLVR'OLID.E -TIIK WAUDLEliS. Jy^ 



extent <>t tiTiitrny. AVilsou met witli it in I'ennsylvaniji diirinj: tlie last nf 

 Aju'il and the first of Afay, l»elie\ intjj it to he only a niij^rant sju'cies on its 

 way to more nnrtliern re^nons. Xnttall was seeptieal of these conelusions, 

 as he never met with the species in the New Kn^hmd States. A»uhih»>n 

 observed these hirds in their mii^rations throui^Mi Louisiana, which State they 

 entered from Texas in the month of A}>ril. He procured several specimens 

 in Louisiana and Kentucky, and one in New Jers(?v. Hi* knew nothin«' as 

 to its l»ree<lini,', and seems to have accepted Wilson's inferences in regard to 

 its northern mi;^rations. He never met with this l»ird in the fall, when, if a 

 Xorthern species, it should be returning south, and thence inferred that it 

 migrated by ni^lit. 



Professor Uaird has nbtaini'd this bird near Carlisle, l*enn., in July, 

 rentlering pr(»bable its breeding in that vicinity. \V. S. Wood met with 

 it near St. Louis, May lo, IX'tT, and two days ]Htviously in the same 

 year Mr. Kennicott procured an individual in Soutiiern Illinois. Occa- 

 sionally specimens have been obtained in Massachusetts, and of late these 

 occuiTences have become mon* frecpient or more observed. It was first 

 noticeil near Boston by .]. Kliot Cabot, Ksip, who shot one in May, 1S:».S, 

 near Fresh I'oud. This was, he thinks,' on the 'JOth of that month. Since 

 then Mr. J. A. Allen has known of several specimens taken within the 

 State. Mr. Jillson has observe<l it s]»ending the sunnner in liolton, and 

 evidently breeding, as has also ^Ir. Allen at Springfield, and Mr. IJennett at 

 Holyoke. In the summer of 1S70, Mr. Maynard obtained its nest and eggs 

 in Newton. 



The late Dr. (Jerhardt found it breeiling among the high grounds of North- 

 ern Georgia. It has also V>een taken at IJacine, Wis., by Dr. Hoy, and in 

 Ohio. These data seem to show that it is sparinulv found from (teoi-jria to 

 iMassachusetts, and from New Jersey to Missouri and Wisconsin. Its west- 

 ern limits may be m(a*e extended. It was not met with by any of the ex- 

 ploring ]>arties Ix^yond St. Louis, but its retiring habits and its sparse distri- 

 bution may account for this. 



Dr. Samuel Cabot was the fii*st naturalist to meet with the nest and e«rfrs 

 of this bird. This was in ^lay, 18:»7, in (Ireenbrier County, Va. The nest 

 was constructed in the midst of a low bush on high ground, and contained 

 four eggs. 



The late Dr. Alexander Gerluirdt found the nest and eggs of this W^arbler 

 in the spring of 1850, in Whitfiehl County, Ga. It contained four eggs, and 

 was built on the ground. It was very large for the bird, being five inches in 

 height and four in diameter. The cavity was also quite large and deep for 

 so small a bird, exceeding three inches both in depth and in diameter. The 

 outer and nnder portions of this nest were almost entirely composed of the 

 dry leaves of several kinds of deciduous trees. The.se were interwoven with 

 and strongly bound together by black vegetable roots, dry sedges, and fine 

 strips of pliant bark, and the whole line*! with a close network of fine 



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