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mer, and must certainly breed. Perhaps I can best describe this bog by 

 quoting- from a previous article (Cf. Knight, Coutr. to Life Hist. Yellow 

 Palm Warbler, Jour. Me. Orn. Soc, Apr., 1904, p. 37): 



iV From the northeastern part of the City of Bangor a road, called Still- 

 water Avenue, runs from Bangor through Veazie and Orono to the town of 

 Stillwater, some ten miles distant. At a point about half way to Stillwat- 

 er, partly in Bangor, partly in Yeazie and partly in Orono, this bog is along 

 both sides of Stillwater Avenue for a quarter of a mile. From Still water 

 Avenue on the northwest side the bog extends three miles with various in- 

 terruptions to Pusliaw Pond and along the eastern side of the pond for near- 

 lv seven miles. Though thickly wooded or interspersed with alder swamps 

 in limited spots the vast bulk of this bog consists of large, open, boggy ex- 

 panses thickly covered with a dense carpet of sphagnum moss and dotted 

 with black spruce and hackmatack trees and various small shrubs. Among 

 the characteristic vegetation may be enumerated: — Hackmatack {Larix lar- 

 icina)\ Swamp Spruce {Picea bremfolia)\ Labrador Tea {Ledum greenlandi- 

 cuni); Rhododendron {Rhodor a canadensis); Low Birch (Betula pumila); Pit- 

 cher-plant {Sarracenia purpurea); Buckbeau {MenyantJies trifoliata); Are- 

 thusa {Arethusa bulbosa); Calopogon {Limodo} uui tuberosum); Pogonia 

 {Potrouia ophioglossioides); White-fringed Orchis [Hcrbcuaria bhpliariglot- 

 tis); Cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccus); Yellow Ladies Slipper {Cypripedium 

 parviflorum) and many other characteristic plants, largely sedges. Such is 

 the region preferred by the Yellow Palm Warbler as a summer home, and 

 in the open sunny spots where grow the orchids amidst scattered shrubs and 

 trees you may seek their nests. 1 ' » 



Nest building must begin early in May as well grown young have been 

 found the first of June. I am satisfied that both parents share in the duties 

 of incubation and both take part in caring for the young. The nests can be 

 easilv located by watching the parents carrying food to the young, but be- 

 fore the eggs have hatched the birds are very shy of approaching the nest 

 when observers are about. The incubating bird will remain on its nest un- 

 til almost stepped upon before flying, and practically the only way of discov- 

 ering nests is bv flushing birds therefrom, unless some reckless person is 

 willing to visit the bog and spend day after da}- during the nest building 

 season, fighting the voracious mosquitoes and meanwhile watching to catch 

 the birds in the act of carrying material to the nest. 



On account of the comparative inaccessibility of the regions frequented 

 by this species in the nesting season, and the many difficulties iu the way 

 of finding nests, eggs of this species will probably always be much sought 

 for by collectors, even though the Yellow Palm Warbler is certainly one of 

 the locally commonest of breeding species of Warbler in northern and east- 

 ern Maine, and may be most confidently sought in June in localities amidst 

 such surroundinofs as I have outlined. 



