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and a few of purplish slate. They are of an oblong oval shape, 

 and measure .68x.50 of an inch. 



"A nest near Springfield, Massachusetts, obtained by Prof. 

 Horsford, the parent bird having been secured, was built in a 

 low clump of bushes, just above the ground. It is well made, 

 woven of fine hempen fibers of vegetables, slender stems of 

 grass, delicate mosses, and other like materials, and very thor- 

 oughly lined with hair. It measures two and three-fourths 

 inches in diameter and two in height. The cavity is two inches 

 wide and one and three-fourths deep. The eggs measure .60x 

 .60 of an inch, are oblong oval in shape, their ground color a 

 pearly white, marked in a corona, about the larger end, with 

 brown and purplish-brown spots." 



Genus COMPSOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 



"In the species of this genus the bill is conical and acute; the cuhnen very 

 gently curved from the base, the commissure slightly concave. The notch, when 

 visible, is further from the tip than in Dendroica, but usually is either obsolete 

 or entirely wanting. Bristles vpeak. The tarsi are longer than the middle toe. 

 The tail is nearly even and considerably shorter than the wing. Color: Blue 

 above, with a triangular patch of green on the back; anterior lower parts yeL 

 low." 



Compsothlypis americana (Linn.). 



PARULA WARBLER. 

 PLATE XXXII. 



Summer resident in the eastern part of the State; rare; during 

 migration very common; rare in the western portion. Begin 

 to arrive as early as the middle of April; begin laying the last 

 of May. The bulk leave for the south in September; a few oc- 

 casionally remain until the middle of October. 



B. 168. K. 88. C. 93. G. 39, 278. U. 648. 



Habitat. Eastern North America; north to Canada; west 

 to the base of the Rocky Mountains; south in winter to south- 

 ern Florida, West Indies, eastern Mexico and Central America; 

 breeding from the Gulf coast northward throughout their range, 

 chiefly north of latitude 41°. 



Sp. Char. Eyelids white; yellow of lower parts not extending farther back 

 than breast; the sides and flanks white, tinged with bluish gray and rusty brown. 

 Adult male: Above bluish gray (more blue on head), the back bright olive green; 



