242 Noirni American ijiiuks. 



card took it at Oaxaca. Tt ]»as been olitaiiied in Guatemala and Jamaica. In 

 the latter jdace it is found tlie I'ntiie season. In Cuba, in the winter, it is 

 ([uite common. It has also been I'ound in St. ])omini;;o, and probiibly in the 

 otlier AVest India Islands. Mr. (io-sse states that these birds do not a])i)ear in 

 Jamaica before the lOtli of Auj^ust, and that they leave by the first of A]>ril. 

 On the other liand, M'- March, in his notes on the birds of that island, states 

 that on the 8th of Aui^qist he ol>tained an old bird and two young, the latter 

 of which he was conti»lent had been hatched on the island, and his son had 

 met witli the birds all through the summer, and had jn-ocured a si)ecimen on 

 the 4th of June. 



Wils(»ii states that the habits of this sj>ecies ]>artake more of those of the 

 Creeper than of the true Warl)ler. He met with it in (Jeorgia in the month 

 of Fel»ruary. He speaks of its notes as loud, and as resembling those of the 

 Indigo-IJird. It leniained .some time creeping around the brandies of the 

 same pine, in the manner of a Porns, uttering its song every few minutes. 

 AVhen it flew to another tree, it would aliuht on the trunk and run nimblv 

 up and down in search of insects. Tliey are said to arrive in (leorgia in 

 Februarv, after an absence of onlv three montlis. AVilson states that tliev 

 occur as iar north as Pennsylvania, but does not give his authority. The 

 food of this species ap]»eai's to be larva* and jaqta', ratiier than winged insects. 

 Tho.se dissected l>y Mr. (Jos.se in Jamaica were found to have quite large 

 stomachs, containing cateri)illars of various kinds. 



Xuttall and Audubon are ver\' contradictorv in tlieir statements touching 

 its nestinir, and it is not i»robable that the accounts yiven bv either are 

 founded upon any reliable authorities. The former describes a nest remark- 

 able l)oth for structure and situation, said t(» have been found in West Flor- 

 ida, sus]»ended by a kind of rojje from the end of brandies over a -itream 

 or a ravine. This nest, entirely pensile, is imj)ervious to rain, and with an 

 entrance at the Ijottoin. Fie ijives a verv full and minute description of tips 

 nest, but nives no authoritv antl no data to establish its autheiitic-ity. We 

 can therefore only di.^mi.ss it as jirobably erronecms. 



On the other hand, Mr. Audul)on claims to have seen its nest, of which he 

 gives a very ditferent account. He describes it as very })rettily constructed, 

 like the nests of any other of this genus, its outer parts made of dry lichens 

 and .soft mosses, the inner of silky substances and fibres of the S]»anish ukkss. 

 The eu^is are said to be four in numl>er, with a white i-round-color and a few 

 ]>ur]»le dots near the larger end. He thinks they raise two ]»roods in a sea- 

 son in Louisiana. These nests are not pensile, lait are ]daced on the iiori/mi- 

 tal branch of the cypress, from twenty to fifty feet al»ov(» the ground. It 

 closelv Hisemldes a knot or a tuft of moss, and therefore is not easilv discov- 

 ered frtnii fjelow. 



A nest containing a single e«j;g, found by Mr. (Josse near Xeoslio Falls, and 

 su])j>f».sed to belong to tliis s]>ecies, luit not fully identified, was Imilt in a low 

 sa]tling a few feet from the ground, and is a very neat structure, sncli as is 



