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NESTS AND EGGS OE 
birds just able to fly, but could never discover any nests. Mr. John Cassiu, 
in bis day, expi’essed the opinion that these birds certainly bred in the 
same State, near Philadeljihia, as he frequently met with the young under 
similar circumstances. Nests have been taken in Central New York, but 
we have no evidence of its breeding in the adjoining State of Pennsyl- 
vania, although individuals have been seen in transitu. 
Though chiefly a migrant in the United States, yet a few winter in 
Florida. But the larger part cross the Channel, after the breeding-season 
is over, and spend their time in the delightful islands which lie to the 
southward. Here, in January, these once beautiful birds may be seen in 
their winter garb sj^orting amid tropical or sub-tropical foliage, or hunting 
the insects that contribute to their bill of fare. 
About the beginning of April, sometimes later, they deck themselves 
in their summer array, and while some sojourn in these Isles of the Blest 
where summer is perennial, and raise their charming little families, others 
pine for the cooler groves and fields of the North. Accordingly, about 
the tenth of April, all things being in readiness, and at a season when 
Nature is weeping herself away in rainy tears, the males apparently lead- 
ing the way, the sexes bid adieu to the sights about them, and take their 
departure. 
Their arrival in the Middle section of our country varies somewhat, 
and is dej)endent upon the season. During some years we have noted 
their appearance about the twentieth of April, when the weather was fine, 
and at other times not earlier than the first of May. In the vicinity of 
Washington, Dr. Coues has found them in pine-trees and cedar-patches, 
about the same time. Farther south, in Georgia, for example, the birds 
make their advent as early as the tenth of April, preferring the hillsides 
to open localities, but it is not until the second or the third week of JMay 
that they reach the New England States. 
Few species of the family to which this Warbler belongs arrive sooner, 
and none are less shy and suspicious. For more than two weeks they are 
