156 BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN 



to May 20 to 22. The latest record is of a 

 male bird present on May 25, 1905. Some- 

 times visitants have remained four or five 

 days. The males are often singing. Occa- 

 sionally a visitant has been seen or heard 

 on the Common. 



Quite as regularly the Myrtle Warbler 

 again visits the Garden in October, and 

 in about the same numbers as in the spring. 

 Nearly twenty came successively in Octo- 

 ber, 1908. During the last week of this 

 month the last usually depart, but there 

 have been two or three early November 

 records, one being of five birds present on 

 November 4, 1906, and another of one bird 

 on November 9, 1903. 



79. Magnolia Warbler 



Dendroica magnolia 



The Magnolia Warbler, or Black and 

 Yellow Warbler, has been a visitant to the 

 Garden in the spring to about the same 

 extent as the Myrtle Warbler. The num- 

 bers of the two species have averaged very 

 nearly alike, about sixty birds each in the 



