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the yard during the summer did not appear until later in the 

 day. Add to this list of nineteen the birds seen during the six 

 previous days of the week which were Black-billed Cuckoo, 

 Olive-sided Flycatcher, Baltimore Oriole, Goldfinch, American 

 Redstart and White-breasted Nuthatch. This lot for one week 

 was equalled in number on May 25, L904, when twenty-six spe- 

 cies of birds were observed at Weedseed fun. Tiny were 

 Mourning Dove, Flicker, Red-headed Woodpecker, Ruby- 

 throated Hummingbird, Kingbird, Phoebe, Chebec, Blue Jay, 

 Bobolink, Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Meadowlark, Bal- 

 timore Oriole, English Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Song 

 Sparrow, Swallow, White-eyed Yireo, Maryland Yellow- 

 throat, Yellow-breasted Chat, Crown Thrasher, House Wren, 

 Catbird, Bluebird, Robin, and another which could not be satis- 

 factorily named. 



Early rising and a day devoted to observing the birds 

 would, no doubt, secure a much longer list of bird guests for 

 one day at this bird hostelry. A list of seventy-nine species 

 named and many others that were not identified suggests in 

 a limited degree what has been seen in one yard by a tyro in 

 the doorvard study of birds. 



BREEDING HABITS OF PARULA WARBLER (Comp- 

 sothlypis americana usiwcc) IX NEW" JERSEY. 



BY MARK L. C. WILDE. 



Parula Warblers are very common during the breeding 

 season, in suitable localities, throughout the lower half of the 

 state of Yew Jersey. Commencing at Brown's Mills, on the 

 Rancocas Creek, situated in Burlington county some fourteen 

 miles east of Mount Holly, and journeying southward to the 

 Delaware Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, these birds can be found 

 breeding on the edge of all swamps, streams, lakes, ponds, and 

 mill dams, where there is a fairly good growth of that bearded 

 lichen (L^snea barbata), which many of the south Jerseymen 

 deign to call "Beard-Moss." 



While the climatic conditions, to a very large extent, may 

 be responsible for the presence and growth of this so-called 

 "Beard-Moss/ 5 one thing is certain, and that is, this lichen 

 absolutelv controls the distribution of the Parula Warbler, as 



