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Northern Parula Warbler. CoDfpsof/ihpfx 

 auwricaua usnccc. (i-l-Sa. 



The remarks on song are here given under the specific form 

 for the sake of uniformity, but they really apply to the sub- 

 specific form. The Parula Warbler is the southern form, occur- 

 ing in the south Atlantic and Gulf states, north in the interior 

 to Mt. Carmel, 111. ; the Northern Parula Warbler breeds along 

 the norther tier of states and into Canada, and west to the 

 plains. There is nothing to indicate that the songs of these 

 two forms differ perceptibly. 



Cape May Warbler. Dendroica figrina. (ioO. 



The lack of much definite imformation abovit the song of 

 this warbler in the literature of bird songs, will attest the 

 general rarity of the species. The only studied attempt at a 

 description seems to be that of Prof. A. W. Butler in his Birds 

 of Indiana, ''a-wii a-wit a-mit a-ioit a-tvit^ each pair of sylla- 

 bles repeated five times with moderate rapidity in the same 

 tone, with no inflection." This description answers very well 

 for the songs which I have heard if it be added that the effect 

 is only less wiry than that of the Black and White Warbler. 

 The birds sing on their northward journey but nave not been 

 reported on their return south among the singers. 



I have found more individuals in orchards than an^-where 

 else. The only ones seen in Lorain County, Ohio, to my 

 knowledge, have been in the orchards within the village. But 

 they are known to flock with other members of the family in 

 the woods. 



In the nesting haunts the male seems to delight in mount- 

 ing to the top of a tall tree and there pouring ovit his song 

 while the female broods over the eggs in a low bush at some 

 distance, thus misleading the nest hunter. 



Another eastern species, west to the plains and north to 

 the Hudson Bay Territory. 



Cerulean Warbler. Dendroica rara. ()o<S 



Six different writers agree in their descriptions of this 

 bird's song. It consists of two distinct parts, the first of 

 several definite single syllables with a comma pause between 



