6 £be Warbler 



On June i, 1902, Mr. J. Merton Swain, while in my company, found a nest 

 with five much incubated eggs in a similar bog at Hermon, some five miles 

 from Bangor. Mr. Swain also records a nest found June 11, 1902, between 

 Buruham and Unity which contained four young about a week old. This nest 

 was in a tuft of grass in rather wet laud. 



The late C. H. Morrell took a nest near Pittsfield, May 27, 1891, (not 

 recorded until some time after my first set was recorded) which contained 

 two eggs of the Yellow Palm Warbler and two of the Cowbird. This nest 

 was in a pasture on side of a knoll at the foot of a small fir bush. On June 

 25, 1893, Mr. Morrell took another set from a nest situated in a bushy pas- 

 ture between two small bushes, which contained five eggs. June 13, 1894, 

 Mr. H. H. Johnson took a set near Pittsfield which was placed five inches 

 from the ground in a small spruce bush and which contained fresh eggs. 



While the evidence shows that rarely nests are placed a slight distance 

 from the earth in bushes, it is evident that a great majority of the nests are 

 placed on the ground and imbedded in moss, and as those found in bushes 

 at slight distances above the earth were found at late dates for eggs of the 

 species it is quite possible that such nests are second ones for the season, ow- 

 ing to the destruction of the first nests from some cause or other which leads 

 to seeking safety by placing the next nests built on more elevated sites. 



While Maine is the only state where this species has been found nest- 

 ing, I would be inclined to predict that careful search of suitable localities 

 in northern New Hampshire and Vermont will show that they nest there 

 also, and thence northward into Labrador and Newfoundland is their sum- 

 mer home. The southward migration begins as early as August, but strag- 

 glers remain in Maine through September and I have seen individuals about 

 Bangor as late as October 1st. 



The only sets which have been preserved in first class condition from 

 the total number here recorded are the two sets in the collection of the late 

 Mr. Morrell, one set of which I believe Mr. Morrell sent to the Smithsonian 

 Institution previous to his death; the set in Mr. Johnson's collection; set in 

 collection of O. W. Knight; set collected by O. W. Knight and now in col- 

 lection of J. Parker Norris; set collected by O. W. Knight and now in col- 

 lection of John Lewis Childs; making a total of six sets from the United 

 States and all from Maine now preserved in first class shape. 



Bangor, Maine, Dec. 28, 1905. 



