NOTES ON A FEW BIRDS OCCURKING IN THE VICINITY 

 OF PORTLAND, ME. 



BY NATHAN OLIFFORD BROWN. 



One of the commonest Sylvicoline summer residents in the town- 

 ships adjacent to Portland is Dendrmca maculosa, a bird whose 

 southernmost regular breeding-ground has been supposed to be the 

 latitude of Umbagog Lake. It breeds in especial abundance about 

 the spruce woods of Cape Elizabeth, in that locality outnumbering 

 every other Warbler except Dendroeca vh-ens. Young first make 

 their appearance about August 3, and soon abound. 



Bna N.0.0. 4, April, 1879. p. . 



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Birds of Dead Eiver Region, Me. F. H. O. 



23. Denclrceca maculosa, (Black-and- Yellow 

 Warbler). Fairly common in certain localities, 

 being rather erratic in its movements. It is quite 

 common around Jim Pond, just back of Eustis, 

 and a few were seen near Black Mountain. For 

 several days none of this species would be seen, ; 

 and again at certain places they were to be found 

 in considerable numbers, seeming to be restricted 

 in their movements to the forests which contained 

 a certain admixture of hard wood growth. No 

 nests were found, but satisfactory proof of their . 

 breeding was not wanting. A nest found at Um- 

 bagog, June 6, '82, was placed in a hemlock shrub 

 and was composed of grass and tine bits of hem- 

 lock strips lined with a few bits of hair and a 

 single fluff of cotton and an inner lining of horse- 

 hair, though how they procured the two last 

 named materials is beyond my comprehension. It i 

 contained only three eggs, ot a creamy white j: 

 spotted with a few blotches of brown in form of a !] 

 wreath at the larger end. 



O.&O, XI. Sep, 1886. p. ISO 



SummerBeaidenta on Sotith-«^eat 

 Ooaai oi Maiae. I". H, MOatgomery. Jr. 



6.57. Magnolia Warbler. Rather common 

 at Boothbay. 



