THE OOLOGIST 
The Crange Crowned Warbler. 
This is one of the rare members of 
the family, more common during mi- 
gration in the Mississippi Valley, and 
one of whose nesting habits and home 
life but very little is known. It is 
supposed to breed casually in Wiscon- 
sin and once in a great while in east- 
ern Canada, but the chief summer 
home of this species is from Manitoba 
northwest to Alaska. It is of a rest- 
less Kinglet like disposition, moving 
continually about the upper parts of 
the larger trees. The song is unusual- 
ly strong for a bird of this size. The 
eggs are reported as “white or creamy 
white, finely checked, chiefly on the 
larger end with reddish or chestnut 
brown.” 
The view of the nest herewith pre- 
sented on the following page, is taken 
from a photo given to the editor by an 
ornithologist, a2 number of years ago 
in Quebec, who claimed at that time 
that it was a photo of a nest that he 
had found the summer previously on 
the north side of the St. Lawrence 
river, opposite the City of Quebec. It 
is to be hoped that the next few years 
will unfold much of the life history of 
this little-known species. 
Our Canadian readers are special- 
ly adjured to look it up and write us 
the result of their investigations. 
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The Myrtle Warbler 
on Strange Ground. 
The Myrtle Warbler is a true wood 
warbler, yet how often do we find it, 
in the migrations, in places very un- 
woodlike, 
There is a_ locality at Frankford, 
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, 
near the Deleware River, where I 
have found it at these times and often 
wondered what inducement led the 
birds to frequent it as they passed 
through. It consists of a thick growth 
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of button and black alder bushes sev- 
eral ecres in area, growing in shal- 
low water and mud, and surrounded 
on all sides by marsh and cultivated 
lands, with not a tree within several 
hundred yards, and the nearest woods 
over a mile away and across the river 
in New Jersey. 
It is here that the Myrtle Warbler 
will linger in the Spring until into 
May, and tarry in the Fall until lat- 
er in November, seemingly contented 
in such an environment, which seems 
to me ill adapted to its habits, and one 
in which very few ornithologists would 
expect to find it. 
In this thicket every day after 
April 20-25 to May 5-10 in the Spring 
and during October and till Novem- 
ber 10th and later in the Fall, I can 
reasonably expect to find the Yellow- 
rumped Warbler in it. In fact, it is 
the only place in this locality at these 
times where I am absolutely certain to 
find it, and this I have proven several 
times when having an “All Day” with 
the birds. 
That the birds find an abundance of 
food in the thicket is easily ascertain- 
ed by watching them for an hour or 
two, by observing the host of insects 
in it, and by shooting a bird and 
noting its fat and excellent condition, 
together with its well filled stomach. 
The majority of the birds shot and 
seen in the thicket have been imma- 
ture (in fall) and females, but few 
adult males in nuptial plumage being 
seen er taken. I merely mention this 
as in interesting occurrence, for in 
woods the majority of the birds ob- 
served and shot have been males. 
The thicket being situated along the 
river, one mile inland, and the only 
available resting place for birds until 
they reach the other side of the city 
(Philadelphia), a distance of about ten 
miles, migrate on their way South in 
the fall, following the course of the 
