196 CAPE MAY WARBLER. 
to the end of a drooping branch of a brazil-tree in open woodland. The nest was 
constructed very simply, being formed by parting the gray leaves of the orchid and 
digging into its centre from the side, a cavity some 2 inches in diameter being made, 
with an opening of 1.50 inches. The bottom and sides were lined pretty well up with 
short cottony wood-fibres, forming a fine matting for the eggs to rest upon. A firmer 
and more secure nest is seldom seen, although so easily made. I imagine a day would 
complete one, and certainly but little time need be wasted in selecting a site, for 
thousands of orchids stand out on the partially dead branches or on trees with little 
foliage. That they build also in the hanging trusses of Spanish moss, so abundant 
everywhere, is true, as young were found in a nest in one.” (Sennett.) The eggs are 
very similar to those of the Parula Warbler. 
NAMES: SENNETT’s WARBLER. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Parula nigrilora Coues (1878). COMPSOTHLYPIS NIGRILORA Sven. (1884). 
DESCRIPTION: Male, “above bluish-gray, or plumbeous, relieved by olive-green patch on back and two 
broad white wing-bands; lores, deep black; chin, throat, chest, breast, and sides, gamboge-yellow, 
deepening into a more saffron tinge on chest; rest of lower parts white, the flanks usually tinged 
with brown. Adult female: Much duller than male, the upper parts tinged with olive-green, lores 
dull grayish-dusky, yellow of lower parts paler and duller.” (Ridgway.) 
Length, 4.50 inches; wing, 2.10; tail, 1.66 inches. 
CAPE MAY WARBLER. 
Dendroica tigrina BatRrD. 
The pretty but rare CapE May WaRBLER occasionally visits with other species the 
blooming orchard trees in the Northern and Middle States. I never observed it in Texas, 
but in Lawrence Co., Mo., I found it rather common from April 20 to May 3. In north- 
ern Illinois and central Wisconsin, it arrives about May 15, when the orchards swarm 
with many species of migrating Warblers. Like other species, it darts and hops about 
among the branches dexterously catching inseéts on the wing. I never saw it on the 
ground. This is about all I can say from my own experience regarding this Warbler. 
Its breeding grounds are the coniferous woods of eastern North America, north to 
the Hudson’s Bay Territory, west to the Plains. It breeds in northern New England 
and, probably, also in northern Michigan and Minnesota. As yet little is known about 
its nesting habits. During the summer of 1871, Mr. H. B. Bailey found: a nest on the 
Richardson Lakes, in north-western Maine. It was built in.a low spruce, less than five 
feet from the ground, and contained one egg. Near Calais, Me., it is a common summer 
resident and breeds. According to the authority of Mr. Montague Chamberlain, a nest 
was found by James W. Banks, near St. John, N. B. It was hidden among a cluster of 
low cedars growing in an exposed position, on a rather open hill-side, near a dwelling, 
and within a stone’s throw of a much frequented lane. The nest was placed less than 
three feet from the ground and within six inches of the tips of the branches, amid the 
densest part of the foliage, by which it was well screened from observation. The walls 
of the nest were composed of minute twigs of dried spruce, grasses, and strawberry 
vines, with spider’s webbing interwoven. ‘The lining, composed entirely of horse- 
hair, is laid with precision, and shaped into a prettily formed cup, the brim being 
