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size, number and colouring are supposed to be similar to 

 that of the orange-crowned warbler. There are eight speci- 

 mens, including one taken at the Athabasca Landing in May, 

 1888, by Mr. J. M. Macoun, but no eggs, in the Ottawa 

 Museum ! 



650. Cape May Waeblee — Dendroica tigrina (Gmelin). 



Dr. Frank Eussell secured the only straggler he observed 

 at Eort Chipewyan, on May 31st, 1893. 



At Long Lake, Yorkton, Saskatchewan Province, on 

 June 2nd, 1891, Mr. W. Raine, of Toronto, took a nest 

 and four eggs of this bird. It was built nearly three feet 

 fiom the ground, in a willow. I don't think I ever saw this 

 warbler. Neither Richardson nor Ross make any reference 

 thereto, while the Dominion Museum at the Capital holds 

 but two specimens, one of which had been purchased with 

 the Holman collection, and no eggs! 



652. Yellow Waeblee — Dendroica wstiva (Gmelin). 



In 1880 and again in 1885 specimens of nests, birds, and 

 eggs of probably the most abundant and widely distributed of 

 all the North American warblers were gathered at Eort 

 Chipewyan and later shipped to Mr. Dalgleish. At Eort 

 Providence Mr. Reid obtained several similar examples for 

 Dr; Bell. It lays four or five eggs in a small and neatly 

 constructed nest, placed on dwarf willows and small scrub 

 pine at a height of a few feet above the ground. Mr. Mc- 

 Kay, of Pelican Narrows, also gathered four nests, each 

 holding four and five eggs. At Eort Anderson we realized 

 the great abundance of this species, whose eggs were not 

 desiderata, and we did all that was possible to discourage 

 their collection. The eggs are greenish or greenish-white, 

 dotted and blotched with reddish-'brown and lilac. A nest and 

 four eggs were sent to Washington from Cumberland House 

 summer 1890. The Ottawa Museum, contains thirty -three 

 specimens and four sets of eggs, two of which were collected 

 by Professor Macotin. 



