288 THE BIRDS 
part with their time of breeding: some years fresh sets 
were only found after June Ist, other years nearly full- 
grown young were found by the latter part of May. 
Three to four eggs is a full setting, the nest being made 
in the bunches of hanging Spanish moss by pulling or 
gathering it together at its thickest point, and lining it 
with a yellow plant down. The eggs are a dull glossy- 
cream, finely specked and blotched with lilac and brown, 
forming a wreath on the larger end. Size, .66x.45. Their 
food consists of small moths, worms, caterpillars, beetles, 
and various insects gathered from the juniper foliage, 
and trees bordering the water. Their song is a most 
musical one, though soft. They arrive the 25th of March 
or thereabout, unless the spring be unduly late, and 
remain until the latter part of August. It is not 
improbable that they sometimes raise two broods with us, 
though the weather conditions affecting the food supply 
probably is the governing factor in the case. 
[648-A]. Compsothlypis americana usnew (Brewster). 
Northern Parula Warbler. 
Raner.—Eastern United States. Breeds mainly in 
Transition and Austral zones from eastern Nebraska, 
northern Minnesota, central Ontario, Anticosti Island, 
and Cape Breton Island south to central southern Texas, 
southern Louisiana, Alabama, northeastern Virginia, and 
Maryland; winters probably in the Bahamas and West 
Indies to Barbados, and from Vera Cruz and Oaxaca to 
Nicaragua; casual in Wyoming and Colorado; accidental 
in Greenland. 
