themselves of our restricted food-lots and swarm through our fenced orchards. 

 V\'e are unmasking hidden beauties, and compelling relunctant fays to show 

 themselves. 



The Pilack-throated Green Warbler, as an indivi<lual, is little troubled over 

 our ingenious compulsion, for it is not at all unwilling to show itself, and has 

 never learned a wholesome fear of man's presence. It is one of the commonest 

 warblers both in spring and fall, and seems in no hurry to get on, but there is 

 no recent evidence that it ever fails to make the passage of Lake Eric. Confined 

 for the most part to the tops of trees, it not infrequently ventures down to 

 inspect you, hopping daintily from branch to branch, and leaning forward to peer 

 at you inquiringly as the distance decreases. 



The song is an odd little affair of lisping, squeaky notes, but as innocent 

 as the upturned face of a questioning child. Its delicacy defies vocalization, 

 but Mr. burroughs has proposed a graphic representation which is quite unfor- 

 gettable, " V •" 



Family groups of six or seven individuals may be seen early in the fall 

 hunting close together, but as the season advances the weakening bonds of 

 kinship are lost in the sense of clanship, and this in turn is blended with the 

 sense of racial consanguinity, which more or less affects all warblers. Rev. 

 W. F. Henninger reports a remarkable occurrence which took place near South 

 Webster, in Scioto County. He says, in substance: On September 28, 1899, 

 I ran into a company of Warblers which I would place conservatively at two 

 thousand individuals. It was like a regular army as it moved up a long, sloping 

 hillside, and with wonderful rapidity. The wind was blowing almost a gale 

 from the north, and the birds allowed themselves to be urged before it in the 

 direction of their ultimate retreat, like half-stubborn autumn leaves. Lisping, 

 chipping, whirling, driving, they hurried on and I after at full speed, panting, 

 and wishing devoutly for a better chance to identify the fleeing forms. Arrived 

 at the top of the hill the army suddenly halted and when I arrived breathless 

 I had time to note the arrangement by species, not rigid indeed, but sufficiently 

 striking to command attention. In the center were seen Hooded Warblers and a 

 sprinkling of Chestnut-sides. On either side of these in turn were Black- 

 throated Greens and Sycamores, about two hundred of each : while the wings 

 proper were held by Bay-breasts and Black-polls in enormous numbers. The 

 order, as I say, was not strictly maintained, but the specific grouping within the 

 general ranks was at least remarkable. As the birds deployed to feed the 

 specific lines were not quite obliterated. 



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