:{0 WARHLKR .S( JNG.S. 



The favorite resort of this bird is a dry, wooded, nioder- 

 atel}' rough region, where the brush)- hillsides alid ravines 

 furnish a cover. He sometimes ventures into the open also. 



This Warbler sings from his arrival in earl}' Maj^ until the 

 end of the first week, rareh' into the second week, of July. 

 Mr. Bicknell records a second song period during the latter 

 part of August. 



Eastern United States, west to Nebraska, north to southern 

 New York and New England. Breeds throughout its United 

 vStates range. 



Bachman's Warbler. Helminthopila bachnianii. 040. 



According to Mr. O. Widmann, this Warbler, the Worm- 

 eating, Junco and Chipping Sparrow sing remarkably alike. 

 But the song of Bachman's W^arbler is shriller than that of 

 Chippy instead of being weaker. There is a little uncon- 

 firmed evidence that it also has a passion song. Mr. Brewster 

 describes the migrating .song as resembling that of Parula 

 Warbler. 



I find no evidence of a second song period. 



While migrating it keeps well to the treetops, but Mr. 

 Widmann found the breeding birds in the St. Francis region 

 of Missouri singing in the trees perched rarely higher than 

 forty feet. His paper on the finding of the first nest of this 

 species, in the Auk, Vol. XIV, page 305 to 309, is an admirable 

 account of the habits of the birds. 



Hitherto Bachman's Warbler has been assigned to the 

 south Atlantic States (southern Virginia and Florida) and 

 westward to Eouisiana, but Mr. O. Widmann's labors have 

 • extended its range into south-eastern Missouri. 



Golden-winged Warbler. Helminthophiia chrysoptera. 



642. 



The monotonous is emphasized in this bird's song hj its 

 being lazily and and drawlingly uttered. It is an unmusical 

 song. Mr. Samuels ha^ described it : zce-zee-zee-zce-zee. 



There seems to be nothing relating to the length of the 

 song period, nor whether there may be a second one. 



The bird haunts the scrubby .second-growth, or even the 



