CAPE MAY WARBLER. 



rump yellower; a yellow line over the eye; wing coverts 

 tipped with dull white, under parts paler yellow streaked 

 with sepia. Nest semi-pensile, built of fine grasses, 

 twigs, and rootlets, fastened with spiders' webs and fine 

 plant fibres, and lined with horse hairs; it depends from 

 the low branch of a tree in rather open woodlands, or 

 sometimes the tree is an isolated one in the field. Egg 

 buff white or light buff, slightly speckled with light 

 purple madder or umber. The range of this Warbler is 

 throughout eastern North America, north to Winnipeg 

 and Hudson's Bay; it breeds from northern New Eng- 

 land north to the range limit, and winters in the West 

 Indies and Central America. Although this is a gen- 

 erally rare bird, in the migratory seasons it will not 

 infrequently be seen in association with some of the 

 distinctive woodland Warblers; in summer it will be 

 found among the higher branches of hemlocks, spruces, 

 etc., on the borders of the forest, and also among the 

 fruit trees of the orchard. 



The song of the Cape May is similar to those of the 

 Black Poll and Black and White Warbler; but it is 

 shorter, more monotonous, and is delivered with moder- 

 ate speed and in softer tone of voice. As I have but one 

 notation it is impossible for me to say that this is 

 thoroughly representative: 



Prof. A. W. Butler describes the song in the following 

 syllables which seem to fit my notation tolerably well: 

 ' ' awit-awit awit-awit-awit. " Mr. Torrey says in Spring 

 Notes from Tennessee: "The Magnolia and the Black- 

 burnian were in high feather, and made a gorgeous pair 

 as chance brought them side by side in the same tree. 

 They sang with much freedom. But the Cape Mays 

 kept silence, to my deep regret, notwithstanding the 

 philosophical remarks just now volunteered about the 

 advantages derivable from a bird's gradual disclosure of 

 himself. . . . The Cape May's song is next to nothing, 



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