1904] Warbler Songs and Notes. 23 



Bay-breasted Warbler. Dendroica castanea. A mi>:^rant 

 only here. Song just like that of the redstart. 



Tennessee Warbler. Hehninthophila peregrina. Song like 

 that of the chipping sparrow, except first two syllables, which 

 are ticip instead of chip. 



Cape M.\y Warbler. Dendroica tigrina. Rather rare 

 migrant and rather quiet too. Song something like black and 

 white creeper : atint, awit, awii, aivif, awit, as Prof. Butler puts it. 



Parula Warbler, Blue Yellow-back Warbler. Compsothlypis 

 americana. "Parula 's song is hardly wiry, but it is fine and delicate 

 — more like hair than wire. The more delicate singers seem to 

 say, Pe-tse, pe-tse, pe see see, or : cher-rere, cher-re-re, cher-re-re.^ 



Palm Warbler, Dendroica palmarum. Song : Tsee^ tsee, 

 tsee, tsecy with a distinct swell. (Prof. Jones). 



Yellow Palm Warbler, Dendj'oica palm hypochrysea. Like 

 preceding. 



Mourning Warbler. Geothlypis Philadelphia. Song : Tee 

 te-o, te-o, te-o, zve-se, or : True, true, true, true too 



Wilson's Warbler. Wilsonia pusilla. Song like yellow 

 warbler or redstart. 



Ottawa, March 28, 1904. 



Huge Puff-Balls. — Mr. J. Smith of the Topographical Sur- 

 veys Branch, found a very remarkable puff-ball [Lycoperdon 

 gigantum), about a mile from Breckenbridge Station, on the 

 Pontiac and Pacific Railway, on the 25th of August, 1^03. It 

 measured 56 inches horizontal girth, and 44 inches vertical girth, 

 a perfect specimen with skin as white and smooth as a piece of 

 kid. There were five other large ones within a few feet of it, 

 some of them decayed, others not tuMy grown. Mr. Smith has 

 seen large puflF-balls at the same place for several years back. 

 Such specimens are not rare about Ottawa, but it is believed that 

 that found by Mr. Smith is the largest ever seen in this district. 



John Macoun. 



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