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This bird has the general habits of the Orange-erowned or Nashville Warblers. Ernest 'l‘hompson describes its song as beginning with a note like ('hi'pili', clzz‘pz'li, repeated a dozen or more times, with increas- ing rapidity, then suddenly changed into a mere twitter. Bradford Torrey says the Tennessee's song " is more suggestive of the Nash- ville’s than of any other, but so decidedly ditl‘erent. as never for a mo- ment to be confounded with it,” and adds a detailed description (The Footpath Way, p. 8).

648. Compsothlypis americana. (Li/11).). PAIHTLA \VARRLER; BLUE YELLOW-BAUKEII WARMLHR. :l-‘ig. 97.) Art. 6 .iL'pper parts grayish blue: ayl'eenz‘x/L—yellow pate/L [u the mil/Illa? zy" the (me/c; greater and lesser wing—eoverts tipped with white; outer tail—tbathers with a white patch near the end; throat and breast yellow, more or less marked with pale rufous, a black, or bluish Mark, 01' I‘Hfuux ban/l 4117'!st the breast ,' belly white; Sides sometimes marked with rut'ous. Ad. 9.4Similar, but the rut'ous color and band on the breast sometimes absent, 1111.7Like the 9. L., 4'73; W., 2'40; T.,1‘TI‘.; B, from i

It‘d/lylfr-l‘i:l.\‘lcl‘ll North America; breeds from the Gull" States northward to Antieosti ; winters from Florida southward.

Washington. abundant T. \'.. Apl. 1:0 to May 20: Aug. 20 to Oct. 15; a. few breed. Sing Sing, eommon T. V., May 2 to as; Sept. 21 to Oct. 7. Cam— bridge. common T. \'., May 1 to 28: Sept. 10 to 30.

dist. generally in bunches of [3mm “moss." [Li/5m. four to five, white,

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with rutbus markings, chiefly in a wreath about the larger end, all} x ‘47.

During its migrations the Parula is very generally distributed, but when nesting it selects localities in which there is an abundance of Spanish or I'snea “ moss." ‘

In Florida the Parula's notes mark the beginning of a new ornitho- logical year, and its song is so associated in my mind with the beauties of a southern springr that in describing it as a short, inseetlike buzz I realize how largely its charm is borrowed from its surroundings. When the eypresses are enveloped in a haze of laeelike blossoms. and the woods are f‘agrant with the delicious odor of yellow jasmine, the dreamy softness of the air is voiced by the Parula's drowsy son".

650. Dendroica, tigrina Hilario. CAPE MAY WAuuLER. (See Fig. l.) {111. 5.~(.‘rown blaek, slightly tipped with greenish: car—emwrts reform. bounded behind by a large yellow pateh on the side of the neck; back oli\‘e~green. broadly streaked with black; rump yellow or greenish yellow; :1 [my/r It‘lzite pale]; on {1/13 II'II/I'IIVI'UITI‘I‘ZA'" outer tail—tbuthcrs with a large white pateh on their inner webs, near the tip; under parts vellow. heavily streaked with hlaek; lower belly and under tail—eoverts whitish. A141. 9 .— Upper parts grayish olive-green: rump yellowish : a yellow line over the eye; middle \\'i|1g»eoverts with narrow white tips; outer tail»t'eathers with a white patch on their inner Webs near the tip: under parts yellow, streaked with