104 
1871. 
May 30- 
Juno 10. 
1872. 
Juno 2- 
14. 
1873. 
July 26. 
Dondrooca tigrina. 
Maine (Lako Umbagog). 
Very common evory vAoro, especially among thickly- 
grov;ing, tall firs. The song closely resembles that of 
the Bay-breasted V/arbler, and the habits of the tvro are 
similar, but the Cape !!ay is, on the v;hole, a more active 
bird. It keeps inva riably near the tops of the high¬ 
est trees whence it occasionally darts out after passing 
insetcs. It has a habit of singing on the extreme pina- 
cle of some enormous fir or spruce, v^horo it will often 
remain perfectly motionless for ten or fifteen minutes 
at a time; on such occasions the bird is extremely hard 
to find, and if shot is almost certain to lodge on some 
of the numerous spreading branches beneath. The females 
v/ere usually found equally high in the trees. We took 
several that v/ore about to lay and one killed June 9 had 
evidently deposited all but her last egg. 
Abundant. Generally distributed and extending 
south’vard to Grafton iiotch. In rainy or dark v/'eather 
they came in numbers from the v/oods to feed among the fli ic 
thickets of lov/’ firs and spruces in the pastures. Hero 
they spent much of their' time hanging head dovmv/ard at 
the extremity of the branches, often continuing in this 
position for nearly a minute at a time. They seemed to 
be picking minute insects from the under surface of the 
fir needles. They also resorted to a tliicket of bloH- 
so.ming plumb trees directly under our v.'-indov/’, where v/e 
v/ere always sure of finding several of them. There were 
numerous Hummingbirds here also, and these, the Capo 
May’s wore continually chasing. On June 3 Y;e took a 
fully formed egg (lacking the shell however) from a fon- 
malo of this species and several killed a day or tv/o 
later were evidently incubating. The season is a late 
one and these Warblers seem to be among the earliest 
species breeding here. 
A brood of young accompanied by the male parent 
came into the elm in front of my windov/. 
Aug. 6. Shot an adult male moulting and putting on the fall 
plumage. 
bird 
11 . 
26. 
Of .■ 
Sept.10. 
Shot a young in fall plumage. 
Shot a young female in fall plumage 
Shot a young female in the fall plumage in the elm 
tree near the boat landing. 
Saw one on Cambridge iver. 
