tioning the fact to my wife, she told me she had also noticed one irythe 

 forenoon, fent knew not that it was of special interest. This was E<<b. 14, 

 1884. The day I examined over fifty individuals of Junco b/t never a 

 wing-bar was viable. Under Feb. 21, I find the following a(<try in my 

 diary: "At 8.30 a/^. I shot in ray yard a White-winged S}*6wbird. It is 

 in worn plumage, buKappears to be a typical bird ; bothA-ing-bars show 

 plainly, the tail has twd\feathers on each side pure wrtte, and the third 

 one more than half whiteN. It was in company witl/a second which ap- 

 peared to be in brighter plijtaage. This makes fi<4 specimens seen, two 

 bright and three dull ones. They were each timg^ssociated with a party of 

 Tree Sparrows that has stayed fbround my jfremises all winter, so that 

 there may have been but two indivWials yfa the same ones seen several 

 times." On March 7 a single one ^^VSeen. This completes the record 

 for Caddo. 



Late in the winter a box of skin^rriveX.from Wisconsin which I had 

 prepared the previous spring. /On comparing my new Snowbird with 

 the old ones, I was not a litke surprised to'^'find among them its coun- 

 terpart. This second SM<Smen bore a tag vXnch showed its history 

 to be as follows. The iij^ning of Jan. 14, 1883, if\vvas found alive in my 

 woodshed at JefFerson/Wis., in the southern part 6f the State. It was 

 kept alive three day^and when it died its skin was sVved. Both speci- 

 mens are still in^y possession. \ 



This species Was originally described by Mr. Aiken in 187X from speci- 

 mens taken r« the mountains of Colorado, where the species Xabundant. 

 Three yeaoS later it was taken at Ellis, in Western Kansas, Bjr Dr. L. 

 Watson/lt has been found nowhere else. The past winter Dr. >^tson 

 again ibund the species in the same locality, so that it may be considered 

 a re^ilar winter visitant to Western Kansas, but its occurrence in lije 

 Indian Territory, and especially in Wisconsin, is probably fortuitous. 



THE NESTING HABITS OF THE CAPE MAY 

 WARBLER {DENDRCECA TIGRINA). . 



BY MONTAGUE CHAMBERLAIN. 



My first acquaintance with the Cape May Warbler in its home 

 was made during the summer of 1882, when our party secured 

 several specimens in the heavy woods back of Edmundston, 

 near the northern boundary of New Brunswick. Previous to 

 this I knew nothing of the occurrence of this species in this 

 Province except what I had learned from Mr. Boardman of its 



