Dendroica tigrina. Maine (Lake Umbagog). copy① 1871. May 30- June 10. // Very common every where, especially among thickly- growing, tall firs. The song closely resembles that of the Bay-breasted Warbler, and the habits of the two are similar, but the Cape May is, on the whole, a more active bird. It keeps inva riably near the tops of the high- est trees whence it occasionally darts out after passing insects. It has a habit of singing on the extreme pina- cle of some enormous fir or spruce, where 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 were usually found equally high in the trees. We took several that were about to lay and one killed June 9 had evidently deposited all but her last egg. // 1872. copy② June 2- 14. // Abundant. Generally distributed and extending southward to Grafton Notch. In rainy or dark weather they came in numbers from the woods to feed among the firs thickets of low firs and spruces in the pastures. Here they spent much of their time hanging head downward 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 thicket of bloss- soming plumb trees directly under our window, where we were always sure of finding several of them. There were numerous Hummingbirds here also, and these, the Cape May's were continually chasing. On June 3 we took a fully formed egg (lacking the shell however) from a fem- male of this species and several killed a day or two later were evidently incubating. The season is a late one and these Warblers seem to be among the earliest species breeding here. 1873. July 26. A brood of young accompanied by the male parent came into the elm in front of my window. Aug. 6. Shot an adult male moulting and putting on the fall plumage. bird " 11. Shot a young female in fall plumago. " 26. Shot a young female in fall plumago " 28. Shot a young female in the fall plumage in the elm tree near the boat landing. Sept.10. Saw one on Cambridge River. 32