132 Bird -Lore 



remiges and greater coverts were fairly well developed. On June 14, I 

 could see that traces of yellow were present on the breast. The middle 

 of the belly and the jugulum were still bare. The wings showed well-de- 

 fined white bars. On June 18, Dr. Wiegmann and I made a thorough 

 search of the vicinity, but found no trace of the parent birds, the nest or 

 the young. The day before this, Dr. Wiegmann had seen the nest in 

 place, but empty, except for some undried excrement, and frequent visits 

 to the vicinity have been of no avail. 



The nest was placed on the ground (not in a depression). It was at 

 the foot of a goldenrod (Solidago) beneath the tip of a spray of beech and 

 in a tangle of catbrier and second -growth of dogwood. In the imme- 

 diate vicinity were beech, red cedar, pin -oak and chestnut trees. The nest 

 was covered with a few dried beech leaves that may have fallen from the 

 tree above. It was a typical Blue -winged Warbler's nest and was arranged 

 in concentric layers, the inner layer being composed of red cedar shreds, 

 the outer layer consisting of dried black oak leaves. 



Three different songs were noted, all, of course, being given by the 

 male, as follows: 



(a) Shre -e-e, zwe-e-e-e, the first syllable like that of the song of the 

 Golden-winged Warbler, the second like that of the song of the Blue- 

 wing. This was the song most frequently heard. 



(b) Shree-e, shree, shree, shree, the typical song of the Golden-winged 

 Warbler. 



(c) Chip-a-chip-a-chip-a-shree. The first phrase of this song is exactly 

 like the song heard during the second song period of the Blue-winged 

 Warbler, the second being a typical Golden -wing syllable. 



Besides these three songs we heard a sharp call-note — tzip — and a thin 

 scolding note when we came too near the nest. 



I append a description of the Lawrence Warbler: Above bright olive - 

 yellow, brighter on occiput, becoming golden yellow on forehead and front 

 half of crown; chest, breast, and fore-abdomen pale yellow (paler than in 

 a female Blue-wing), obscurely mottled with dusky; crissum and under 

 tail-coverts white; a broad patch on the side of the face occupi^ the entire 

 auricular region; a broad triangular black patch occupies the gular and 

 jugular region and the chin; this patch is terminated by a very convex pos- 

 terior border which almost joins with the auricular patch; a yellowish white 

 malar stripe separates the two black patches; wings dusky, tinged with 

 slate, and, in some lights, with a bluish tinge; greater wing-coverts edged 

 with white, producing two conspicuous, parallel wing-bars; tail dusky, 

 each of the two outer feathers (on each side) broadly marked with white, 

 the third feather on each being merely tipped with that color. 



It will be seen that this bird differs in several particulars from the speci- 

 men figured in the last number of BiRD-LoRE. 



