IN THE DUNES 19 



venile plumage was on a steamer bound back 

 from Labrador, where, during a fog, a couple of 

 young and very yellow Tennessee warblers flitted 

 about the deck almost within arm's reach. 



The two other warblers are both strikingly 

 marked birds in full adult male plumage, but are 

 both difficult to recognize in their juvenile dress. 

 One, the bay-breasted, in this phase resembles 

 strikingly the black-poll warbler in its autumnal 

 phase, but the individual who displayed itself to 

 my delighted gaze and turned with great accom- 

 modation first one side and then the other to me, 

 showed a faint streak of reddish brown or bay 

 on each side. 



The last of this group, a Cape May warbler, 

 I saw at four different times and places in the 

 grove, and I am still in doubt whether it was al- 

 ways the same bird or four different ones. It is 

 perhaps safe to say that there were at least two 

 individuals. The Cape May warbler in juvenile 

 plumage has but the faintest traces of the tiger- 

 like markings on its face, and, with its spotted 

 sides and yellow rump, it resembles rather closely 

 the maiinolia warbler in the same stage. The 



