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States, in tlio spriii<4 and tall passinjj; to the north of the 4'2d pamllel to 

 breed. The iirnt specimen was obtained near tlie extreme sonthern jH)int of 

 New Jersey by Cleorjfe Ord, in 1811, and described and figured l)y Wilson. 

 From this accidental eireumstanee it derives its inapjiropriate name of ('a])e 

 ^lay Warl)ler. Wilson never met witli a secontl sijecimen, and Mr. Nuttall 

 Wiis wlioUy nnaciiiiainted with it. Mr. Audubon also never met witli a speci- 

 men in all his wanderings, and was able to aild notiiing to its history. Those 

 figured by him were ])rocured by Mr. Edward Harris, near IMiiladeljiIiia, 

 through which region tliese birds appear to pass rapidly in their northern 

 migrations. 



Mr. J. A. Allen obtained a specimen near Springfield, Mass., May 15, 

 1803, and specimens have also lietui procureii at Kast Windsor Hill, t'onn., 

 by Dr. Wood. It was not met witli in Western Maine by Mr. Verrill, but in 

 Eastern Maine and in New Hrunswiciv Mv. IJoardman lias lonnd it a not un- 

 common summer visitant, though of irregular frequency. He has no doubt 

 tliat they remain there to breed. They reach Calais as early as the .second 

 week in May, or as early as tlunr ai)]iearance usually in the neigldiorhood of 

 I'iiiladelphia has been noticetl Mr. Kuinlien has also obtained sjjecimens 

 from year to year, about tlie middle of May, in Soutliern Wisconsin, where 

 they do not remain to lireed, and Mr. Uidgway has taken them in the 

 beginning of May in Soutliern Illinois. 



It is also l>y no means uncommon in Cuba; was met by the Newtons as 

 a migrant in St. Croi.v, and is not only one of the birds of Jamaica, l)nt is 

 resident and breeds in the highlands of that island. It is not known to 

 occur in Central America, Mt^xico, or west of the Mississippi lliver. S]teci- 

 niens were procured at Moose Factory about May -8. 



Its nests and eggs have not been, with certainty, obtained in the Ignited 

 States, though an egg olttained in Coventry, Vt., in ISIid, and attributed at 

 tlie time to this liird, closely resenililes its identified eggs from Jainaii'a. 

 Specimens of the bird, as well as its nests and eggs, jiave also been received 

 from St. Domingo by Mr. Turnbull of I'iiiladelphia. In the summer of 

 1S71 a nest of this sjieeies was found by Mr. II. H. Hailey on the ifichard- 

 son Lakes, in the extreme north western part of Maine. The nest was in a 

 low spruce-tree, less than five feet from the ground, ami wiieii found con- 

 tained only a single egg. Unfortunately it was left until more eggs were 

 deposited, and in the moan while the tree was cut, and the nest and eggs were 

 destroyed. 



Mr. W. T. Marcii of Jamaica, in Ids notes mi the liirds of that island, 

 states that this species may always be found, in its various changes of plu- 

 mage, abcait the mangrove swamps antl river-banks. During the summer 

 months it was common abmit Healthshire and (ireat Salt Pond, ami at other 

 times very generally distrilmted over the island, lie also met with several 

 specimens of its nests and eggs, but their ])osition was not stated. The nests 

 liiul apparently been taken from a bush tu' tree, were three and one fourth 



