516 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 
of the nest of the Maryland Yellow-throat. It is a little 
smaller at the top, where the internal diameter is less than 
two inches, while in the middle it is two and a quarter. The 
eggs were five in number, including a Cow Bunting’s egg 
that these watchful parasites had introduced The Warbler’s 
eggs are thus described by Mr. Maynard : 
"No. 1 is regular in form, thickly spotted and blotched with dark 
di -five 
hundredths. No. 2 is like No. 1, only 5 is less Bui pibe Length, 
sixty-six one hundredths; diameter, fifty-three. No. 3 is least spotted 
of the four, it being but se so on the larger end and not at all on 
the smaller. Dimensions same as those of No.1. No. 4 is more elon- 
gated, and much the most raagis the spots forming a broad beng around 
the larger end, and are scattered over the remaining surface 
Mr. Maynard adds: “It is a curious fact that nc I 
have seen and collected quite a number of males of this 
species, this is the first female that I have seen, although I 
have made diligent search for them." 
Swarnson’s WARBLER.  Helmitherus Swainsonii Bon. 
Although this species is recorded by both Audubon and Pea- 
body as having been taken in Massachusetts, and on these 
authorities given in my Catalogue, there is some reason to 
doubt its having been: captured here. Both notices doubt- 
less refer to the same specimen, as well as to the same 
authority,—Dr. Brewer. But this gentleman informs me 
that the record is erroneous and the result of a misunder- 
standing; the specimen referred to he says was not this 
species at all. Dr. Brewer knows of no instance of its occur- 
rence here, and it should doubtless be stricken from the list 
of Massachusetts birds. Dr. Coues says he has never seen 
it so far north as Washington, D. C. * 
Wonw-EATING WannLER. Helmitherus vermivorus Bon. 
Mr. Peabody states, in his "Report on the Birds of Massa- 
chusetts," that the nest of this species had been found in 
Cambridge, which statement I repeated in my Catalogue. 
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