Notes from Shelter Island. 



P Blue Yellow-backed Wakbleh. — June 

 9f 12, took a set of six eggs, being the second 

 P set of that number taken by me. Once 

 ^ found a nest containing eight, but was sat- 

 isfied it belonged to two females. One 

 nest found contained two eggs and one of 

 '^^ the Cowbird. It is a mystery how the Cow- 

 00 bird gets into the nest of the blue yellow 

 P back. 



"P (Does this not tend to confirm the theory advanced that the 

 ^ Cowbird and Cuckoo of Europe lay their eggs on the ground 

 ■V and place them in the nest with the bealc.— Ed.) 



Birds of Chjstei County, Penn. 

 Cyrus B.ReBeel, Broil doun, Pa. 



I 152. Compsothlypis americana (Linn.). Pa- j 

 rula Warbler. Summer resident; tolerably j 

 common ; in migration common. Arrives sec- 

 ond week in May. Nidificates first week in 

 June; eggs, four to five. Departs first week 

 in October. 



O &0. XIV.Auj^. 1889 p.115 



Blue Yellow-backed Warbler. — A 

 Large Set. 



A sot of six eggs of Parula aiiiericaiw., was 

 taken June 4, '85, being tbe only instance of my 

 finding tbe above number in one set in ten years' 

 collecting. Is it common to find as many as six 

 in a set 1—B. F. P. 



Summer Birds of Bunoombe County, 

 N.Carolina. John 8. Cairns. 



C'oiniisolldypiK iDiiericana. Partila Warbler. 

 Summer visitor; common. Breeds in March 

 and June. Average height of nests has been 

 twenty-live feet, but I have found them as low 

 as five feet and again as high as sixty. Arrives 

 here about the first of April and stays until the 

 end of October. Four eggs are the usual number, j 

 O &0. XIV. Feb. 1889 p. 21 j 



A Philadelphia Collection of Eggs of 

 theMniotiltidae. 



Parula americana. Blue Yellow-backed 

 Warbler. One set of seven, seven sets of five, 

 twenty sets of four, eight sets of three, two 

 sets of two. Total : thirty-eight sets. 



O.&O. Xm.Dec. 1888 p. 178 



A Collecting Trip ic Texas, 

 (i. B. Beoners, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Parula americana, Blue Yellow-backed War- 

 bler. We saw several of these birds in Comal 

 County, and one of my companions found one 



of their nest;s in the hanging Spanish inoss. It 



contained three eggs. 



O.&O. XII.Apr.lSB7 p. 50-r/. 



