446 NESTS AND EaaS OF 



Klrtland's Warbler: Mr. H. A. Purdie (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, IV, 1879, p. 185), records 

 the last capture of a specimen, and enumerates the examples previously known, as 

 follows: Mr. Adolphe B. Covert, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, shot a female of this much 

 desired warbler, his second capture of the species. This recent specimen I make to 

 be the ninth known to science, viz.: 1. Male, caught on a vessel at sea off Abaco, 

 Bahamas, by Dr. Samuel Cabot, of Boston, the second week in October, 1841. Not 

 identified until several years after the type specimen was described. 2. Male, taken 

 by Dr. J. P. Kirtland near Clevelandj Ohio, May 13, 1851. Type, of the speciea 



3. Male, obtained by R. K. Winslow near Cleveland, Ohio, in June (May?), 1860. 



4. Male, shot by Charles Dury at Cincinnati, Ohio, the first week In May, 1872. 5. 

 Female, collected by A. B. Covert, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 15, 1875. 6 and 7. 

 Male and female, taken by Messrs. William and John Hall, at Rockport, Cuyahoga 

 county, Ohio, May, 1878. 8. Female, collected by Charles B. Corey, on Andros Island, 

 Bahamas, January 9, 1879. Several others have been taken; about a dozen in all, but 

 its summer residence is unknown, and its nest and eggs have never been described. 



671. PINE WAKBIiEK. Dendroiea vigorsU (Aud.) Geog. Dist. — ^Eastern 

 United States, north to Ontario and New Brunswick; wintering in more Southern 

 States and Bahamas; Bermudas. 



The Pine-creeping Wairbler breeds in various localities throughout its United 

 States range and apparently only in regions where there are tracts of coniferous 

 trees. Its nest is always placed on the horizontal boughs in pines or cedars, ranging 

 all the way from eight to eighty feet above the ground, usually at an elevation of from 

 thirty to forty feet. In the pine districts of the States along the Atlantic coast from 

 the Carolinas northward the bird is a common breeder, nesting in March. Mr. R. R. 

 McLaughlin took nests containing eggs in Iredell county. North Carolina, March 25. 

 Mr. C. S. Brimley found the birds building nests in Wake county, of the same State, 

 In the latter part of March. The nest, according to these observers, is hard to dis- 

 cover, and in most cases It is found by watching the birds carry building material 

 which consists of bark-strips, bits of weed and oak leaves, caterpillar's silk and 

 vegetable sedges. It is compactly built and warmly lined with horse hair and 

 feathers. The eggs are four, rarely five in number. The ground-color varies from a 

 dull whitish to gray or purplish-white, and the markings are in the form of spots and 

 specks of lilac-gray and burnt umber, more dense near the largej- ends, and generally 

 form wreaths. 



672. PALM WABBLEB. Dendroiea palmarum (Gmel.) Geog. Dist. — Northern 

 interior to Great Slave Lake; in winter South Atlantic and Gulf States, the Wfest 

 Indies and Mexico. Of rare but regular occurrence in the Atlantic States in mi- 

 grations. 



This V/arbler breeds in the northern interior, to the Great Slave Lake, nesting in 

 June. Its nests and eggs are not common in collections. Its nest is placed on the 

 ground, is very compactly built of fine grasses, shreds of bark and moss; it is 

 usually hidden in a tuft of grass or under the shelter of some plant. No more than 

 four eggs have, I believe, ever been found in a nest. They are creamy white, spotted 

 and blotched, usually about the larger end with purple, lilac and reddish-brown. 

 The reddish and purplish markings are permanent characteristics. The average 

 size is .70X.52 inches. This average size is taken from eight authentic eggs. 



