Page:Bird-lore Vol 06.djvu/167

 132 Bird - Lore

remiges and greater coverts were fairly well developed. On June 14., I could see that traces of yellow were present on the breast. The middle of the belly and the jugulum were still bare. The wings showed well—de- ﬁned white bars. On June 18, Dr. Wiegmann and I made a thorough search of the vicinity, but found no trace of the parent birds, the nest or the young. The day before this, Dr. Wiegmann had seen the nest in place, but empty, except for some undried excrement, and frequent visits to the vicinity have been of no avail.

The nest was placed on the ground (not in a depression). It was at the foot of a goldenrod (Solidago) beneath the tip of a spray of beech and in a tangle of catbrier and second-growth of dogwood. In the imme- diate vicinity were beech, red cedar, pin-oak and chestnut trees. The nest was covered with a few dried beech leaves that may have fallen from the tree above. It was a typical Blue~winged Warbler's nest and was arranged in concentric layers, the inner layer being composed of red cedar shreds, the outer layer consisting of dried black oak leaves.

Three different songs were noted, all, of course, being given by the male. as follows:

(a) Sbre”-e-e, zwe-z-e-e, the ﬁrst syllable like that of the song of the Golden-winged Warbler, the second like that of the song of the Blue~ wing. This was the song most frequently heard.

(b) Shrewe, sbrre. .r/Jree, Slth’I, the typical song of the Golden-winged Warbler.

(c) Cbipva-rbip-rI-£l7ip-a-:/)rer. The ﬁrst phrase of this song is exactly like the song heard during the second song period of the Blue-winged Warbler, the second being a typical Goldenvwing syllable.

Besides these three songs we heard a sharp call-note—tzip—and a thin scolding note when we came too near the nest.

[append a description of the Lawrence Warbler: Above bright olive- yellow, brighter on occiput, becoming golden yellow on forehead and front half of crown; chest, breast, and fore-abdomen pale yellow (paler than in a female Blue-wing). obscurer mottled with dusky; crissum and under tail-coverts white; a broad patch on the side of the face occupiﬁ the entire auricular region; a broad triangular black patch occupies the gular and jugular region and the chin; this patch is terminated by a very convex pos- terior border which almost joins with the auricular patch; a yellowish white malar stripe separates the two black patches; wings dusky, tinged with slate, and, in some lights, with a bluish tinge: greater wing-coverts edged with white. producing two conspicuous, parallel wing-bars: tail dusky, each of the two outer feathers (on each side) broadly marked with white, the third feather on each being merely tipped with that color.

It will be seen that this bird diFfers in several particulars from the speci- men figured in the last number of BlRD-LORE.

My-——.___.o.__~_.