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and April 11, 1896, but ordinarily it has not been noticed before 

 April 13 to 17. About April 20 it is generally pretty numerous 

 and the height of the season for transients is the first week of 

 May. During its southward flight in September the species 

 is again often seen and sometimes heard to sing, especially in 

 the second and third week of the month. The last ones are 

 seen in the vicinity of St. Louis, September 24 to 26, excep- 

 tionally later, October 2, 1906, and in Dunklin Co., October 

 4. Though a fairly common breeder in Missouri it is still 

 much of a mystery where it places its nest. The only 

 one found by the writer (June 8, 1885) was built inside 

 of a bunch of rubbish which during a freshet in the Mera- 

 mec River had kept sticking to a long hanging twig of a 

 birch. This nest is described in Auk, vol. 2, p. 377; but 

 such a place can only be an exceptional nesting-site, and it 

 still remains to be shown where it usually builds its nest, 

 as we have no hanging lichens used for this purpose in other 

 parts of the country. 



650. Dendroica tigrina (Gmel.). Cape May Warbler. 



Motacilla tigrina. Dendroeca tigrina. Perisoglossa tigrina. Sylvia mari- 

 tima. Sylvicola maritima. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, north to the Maritime 

 Provinces, southern shores of Hudson Bay, Manitoba and As- 

 siniboia. Breeds from northern New England, northern Minne- 

 sota and Michigan northward and winters in the West Indies 

 and Yucatan. 



In Missouri a rather rare transient visitant in the vicinity of 

 St. Louis, where its presence in small numbers can be expected 

 early in May, oftenest May 2 or 3, latest May 10, 1887, and 

 May 12, 1885 (May 16 and 17 to May 28, 1907) either among 

 other warblers or in little troops by itself. In fall migration 

 dates of occurrence are more scattered, beginning with August 

 24, 1887, and ending September 26, 1897. The only record for 

 the state outside of St. Louis Co. is from Pierce City, Lawrence 

 Co., where Mr. H. Nehrling found the species April 27, 1884. 

 Since the above was written another record has been added 

 through Mr. E. S. Woodruff's excellent work in Shannon Co., 

 where he took examples of this species, May 10 and 15, 

 1907. 



