74 Oneida Historical Society. 



211. Compsothlypis americana usneae. 



NORTHERN PARULA WARBLER. 

 A common summer resident. Breeds. Arrives May 3 to 12. 



212. Dendroica tigrina. 



CAPE MAY "WARBLER. 



A rare migrant. One recorded from Holland Patent some 

 years ago by Mr. William Fowler of that place. Several in 

 the springs of 1884 and 1885 at eastern end of Oneida Lake 

 by Mr. A. L. Brainard. Four at Hamilton May 11, 1900, 

 by Mr. George C. Embody. 



213. Dendroica aestiva aestiva. 



YELLOW WARBLER. 

 An abundant summer resident. Breeds. Arives May 3 to 9. 



214. Dendroica caerulescens caerulescens. 



BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. 



A common migrant. A local summer resident in the north- 

 ern part of the county. Breeds. Arrives May 5 to 13. In 

 addition to the nest recorded in the Bulletin of the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club, Vol. V, page 238, which seems to have 

 been unusually located, three nests have been taken, May 29th 

 and June 14th, 1886, near Holland Patent. They were all 

 placed in maple bushes, from nine inches to two feet from 

 the ground, in heavy timber grown up with maple brush. 

 They were loose structures, placed in an upright fork, and 

 composed in all three cases of strips of rotten wood held 

 together and lined with fine black roots, and in one case fur- 

 the>- secured with strips of the inner bark of deciduous trees, 

 and measured, outside diameter, from three to three and a 

 half inches; inside diameter, from one and three-quarters to 

 two and a quarter inches; outside depth, three and three- 



