THE OOLOGIST. 



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The Oologist, 



A Monthly Magazine Devoted to 



OOLOGY AND ORNITHOLOGY. 



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Two Warblers. 



Ouly r<nir or five of the Warblers 

 lireed aroiintl here, an*! noue are at all 

 fommon, Iml by careful hunting one 

 will see a good deal of .some of them, 

 The two that I propose to sny a little 

 about are the Prairie and the Parula 

 VVarl)lers, with which I have had some- 

 tiiiiig to do, but I have not been nearly 

 so intimate witli tlicin as I uoiiM likr 

 to have l)een. 



First, the Parula. 



My first acquaintance with the pretty 

 little bird and its nest was made in the 

 Spring of 1887, I think. I was hunting 

 nests in some woods about a mile be- 

 low the city and was watching one of 

 my very intimate little friends, a Blue- 

 gray Gnatcatcher, whom I suspected of 

 being engaged in building. The Blue- 

 gray Avas in a hickory, when all of a 

 sudden, a small bird crossed my vision 

 with something iu its mouth, and to 

 ray stu'prise, disappeared in a festoon 

 of Spanish moss, with which tiie tree 

 was decorated. 



In all my experience (which was 

 very limited, by the way) I had never 

 seen a nest in hanging moss before, 

 and could not imagine what kind of 

 bird it was. When 1 went home I con- 

 sulted an older friend of mine, and 

 from my voluminous description of 

 the bird, partly relieved 1113^ excitement 

 by deciding that in could only have 

 been one of the very rare"Purple-back- 

 ed Bkie-throated Green Wobblers, "and 

 immediately persuaded me to trade it 

 to him. 



I went back some time afterwards 

 and, after quite an amount of trouble 

 got the nest and three eggs, which we 

 found out were those of the Parula 

 Warbler, on consulting authorities a 

 little more experienced than my afore- 

 mentioned friend. 



Such was my first meeting with the 

 Parula Warbler and I have only found 

 one more nest of the species since. 

 That vas found in a small oak tree not 

 over ihirtj' feet distant from the hick- 

 ory and was in a much larger piece of 

 moss. I found it by seeing the dark 

 spots in the moss, and was much pleas- 

 ed to tind four very prettily marked 

 eggs iu it. 



I found tills nest in 1891, and the 

 jireviou.s-^'ear's nest was in the same 

 bunch of moss aljout six inches above 

 the new one. A friend of mine has 

 found several nests and all of his were 



