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BIRDS OP DURHAM AND VICINITY. 
which I have observed it is September 13. Four Pr.rula stomachs 
which I have opened, contained hemipterous, coleopterous, hymenop- 
terous, and dipterous inserts, beetles predominating. The hemiptera 
were capsids and tingitids, and among the coleoptera were a ceram- 
bycid and several chrysomelids. In addition, one stomach contained 
a spider and two lepidopterous larvec. This warbler is usually found 
in well grown, mixed woods. It has been found nesting at Hampton, 
by Mr. Shaw, who has a nest in his possession. To one unacquainted 
with the architecture of this warbler, such a nest is a curiosity, It is 
constructed of the long, stringy moss {L'sjiea) that is found sus- 
pended from the branches of trees in swamps, by winding it loosely 
around a branch. The eggs are deposited in the " slack"' underneath. 
Dendroica aestiva. Yellow VVari5ler. 652. 
Yellow Warblers are here sometimes by the fourth of May, and 
from then on till September they are abundant in the neighborhood of 
fresh water. They frequent deciduous trees and bushes, and exhibit 
little of the shyness so characteristic of many warblers. The nest, 
which is composed largely of cottony materials, is placed in an upright 
fork, usually near the ground but occasionally at a considerable height. 
Dendroica cserulescens. Black-throated Blue 
Warbler. 654. 
This species is only a migrant, and generally is rather uncommon. 
If an observer searches diligently from the fifteenth to the twentieth 
of May, he is usually able to see two or three. Though it is essen- 
tially a woods bird in its summer home, in the higher portions of this 
state, I have found it here in roadside trees quite as often as in the 
w^oods. 
Dendroica coronata. Myrtle Warbler. 655. 
The spring movement of this abundant migrant goes on so quietly 
and with so little show of numbers that one is led to marvel at the 
army of Yellow-rumps that overrun the orchards and pastures in Octo- 
ber. I have seen them here in spring as early as March 5, but that is 
exceptionally early, and frequently it is a month later than that, before 
the migration is well in progress at this point. The last of them go 
northward about the middle of May. I have noted them plentiful as 
late as on the eleventh of that month. My earliest fall record is 
