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turned with exquisite grace. It contained four eggs of a dull white ground-color, of a 
slightly ashen hue; the markings are of a light and dark lilac, and yellowish and red- 
dish tints of brown. As a rule the spots are circular and very small, and are irregularly 
distributed. 
It is very singular that this northern bird breeds in the West Indies. Turnbull 
received nests, eggs, and skins from San Domingo, and March states that he found nests 
and eggs in Jamaica. 
NAMES: Cape May WarBLerR. 
SCIENTIFIC NAMES: Motacilla tigrina Gmelin (1788). DENDROICA TIGRINA Bairp (1858). Sylvia 
maritima Wilson (1812). 
DESCRIPTION: Male, back yellowish-olive, with dark markings; crown, black; abdomen and tail-coverts, 
yellow; rump, rich yellow; an orange-brown ear-patch; a black loral line; under-parts, yellow, 
streaked with black on breast and sides; large white patch on the wings; three pairs of large 
white tail-blotches. Female, similar, but lacking distinctive head-markings; small wing-patch and tail- 
blotches; under-parts, paler. Bill and feet, black. 
Length, 5.25 inches; wing, 2.75; tail, 2.00 inches. 
OLIVE WARBLER. 
Dendroica olivacea Barb. 
The OLIVE WaRBLER is one of the “sixteen species’’ described and figured as new 
in 1841, by J. P. Giraud, and by him attributed to Texas. ‘‘Doubt has been often ex- 
pressed with reference to the ascribed habitat of these birds, the presumption being that 
some, if not all of them, actually came from contiguous Mexican territory. But it is 
well to bear in mind that their describer’s declaration of their origin was unwavering 
to the last, and that his statement is gradually being borne out by the rediscovery of 
his species within our limits; while the Texan side of the valley of the lower Rio Grande 
has afforded various species, the existence of which in this region long remained un- 
suspected.” (Coues.) : 
In 1885 Cassin redescribed and figured the Olive Warbler, without giving, how- 
ever, any information as to its occurrence in the United States. The Smithsonian 
Institution received specimens through Mr. Sumichrast from the Popocatapetl and the 
alpine region of Orizaba. Others were taken in Cordova, Oaxaca, Xalapa, and Vera 
Paz. The first unequivocal testimony of the presence of this rare Warbler over our 
border has been afforded by Mr. H. W. Henshaw, who found it in 1875 in Arizona. 
Mr. Henshaw’s narrative of his experience with the bird is as follows:— 
“During a three days’ visit to Mount Graham, August 1 to 4, the species was not 
detected; ... Returning here Sept. 19, many of the species found in August in abun- 
dance had migrated south, and were either entirely wanting or represented by individu- 
als from farther north, while the woods, the silence of which was often unbroken for 
long intervals by the note of a single bird, would now and then, as if by magic, be 
filled with hundreds of feathered migrants, who in noisy companies were proceeding on 
their way south. The day after establishing our camp here, Mr. Rutter, of the party, 
brought in a fine specimen of this Warbler, which he stated he had shot from among a 
flock of Audubon’s Warblers and Snowbirds, which he had started from the ground 
