288 BIRDS OF ALABAMA 



The nest is placed in blackberry briers, low bushes, or canes, 

 1 to 3 feet above the ground ; the eggs, 3 or 4 in number, are 

 pure white, rarely with a few minute dots of brownish. The 

 nest found by Holt in Bear Swamp was — 



"a bulky structure of dead leaves of white or red bay (Magnolia 

 or Persea), some of which were skeletonized by insects, and 

 herbaceous plant stems * * * supported one foot above the 

 ground by the stems of five blackberry briers, three of which 

 were dead. This loose outer nest, 6x7.5 inches by 4 inches deep, 

 was lined with a closely woven cup of fine rootlets and the 

 black skeletons of dead Spanish moss (Tillandsia tisneoides), 

 1.75 inches deep by 2 inches in diameter."! 



Food habits. — Five stomachs of this species from Alabama 

 contained remains of caterpillars and a few fragments of 

 Hymenoptera, probably ants. 



BLUE-WINGED WARBLER: Vermivora pinus (Linnaeus). 



State records. — The blue-winged warbler occurs not uncom- 

 monly as a migrant and locally as a summer resident in the 

 northern half of the State. At Woodbine, Saunders reports it 

 "abundant throughout the breeding season,"* and at Autauga- 

 ville, Golsan mentions a pair observed throughout the early 

 summer of 1912.$ Graves reports a pair breeding on Sand 

 Mountain, near Carpenter in the summer of 1913. Holt ob- 

 served 3 and collected one at Natural Bridge, July 21, 1913. 

 McCormack has found it at Leighton late in summer (July 22, 

 August 8, 23, 25) and not common. A specimen (probably a 

 migrant) killed at Point Clear is in the collection of James K. 

 Glennon. 



Migrants from the south are reported as arriving at Wood- 

 bine, March 27 (1908) ; Shelby, April 4 (1898) ; Tidewater 

 (Tuscaloosa County), April 8 (1912) ; Autaugaville, April 16 

 (1912) ; Sand Mountain (Jackson County), April 18 (1914) ; 

 and Leighton, April 22 (1914). Migrant individuals were 

 observed also at Jasper, April 28 and 29 (1914) ; on Sipsey 



tHoIt, E. G., The Auk, vol. 37, pp. 103-104, 1920. 

 •Saunders, A. A., The Auk, vol. 25, p. 421, 1908. 

 tGolsan and Holt, The Auk, vol. 31, p. 231, 1914. 



