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Dendroica discolor and Dendroica vigorsi in Eastern Massachusetts in 
Winter.— January 2, 1909, I shot a Prairie Warbler at South Yarmouth, 
Mass. The bird was on a dead pine that had fallen to the beach from the 
sand bluffs and was probably in company with several Myrtle Warblers 
that were in the vicinity. Unfortunately the bird was so badly mutilated 
that I did not save it. Mr. F. H. Kennard was with me at the time, and 
the next day in the same town saw at close range another bird of the same 
species. This bird was among a mixed flock of Pine and Myrtle Warblers, 
Red-breasted Nuthatches, Kinglets and Chickadees. 
There were somewhere between 25 and 50 Pine Warblers in this flock, in 
both adult and first winter plumage.— F. B. McKechnie, Ponkapog, Mass. 
Auk 29 , Apr-1909 ,p. /?J- 
Nesting of the Prairie Warbler at 
Raleigh, N. C. 
abler ( Dendroica discolor) is 
Raleigh, but the nest is by 
find as the birds seem to 
ilding, quite a long way from 
n when the nest is found it is 
Eterwards, so sets don’t get 
it looks as if they ought, 
the Prairie Warbler delights 
es covered with bushes and 
g its nest in one of these at a 
lie to twelve feet from the 
,lly about three or four feet 
t building about the first of 
■e fresh sets from the middle 
y, some pairs being later than 
y. The nest is a beautiful 
y being largely composed of 
rabbit tobacco, a kind of gray-leaved, wild ever- 
lasting very much used by birds in nest build- 
ing, and is lined with soft materials. 
Unlike some localities where this bird nests 
mainly in pine saplings, here sweet gums are 
the preference, with elm about next best, 
nests being only found very occasionally in 
pines, although pine saplings about the right 
size are usually more abundant in the locali- 
ties frequented by this bird than any other 
tree. 
The set is usually four, sometimes three, and 
if one set is taken another nest will he built 
and another set laid, but the second nest is 
usually harder to find than the first, and that 
is hard enough. C. S. Brimley. 
Raleigh, N. C. 
15. Nov, 1890. p,l£ 
