FAMILY Mniotiltide. 
erests of the Alleghanies to Virginia. Scott says he 
found the birds breeding at Mountain Lake, Giles Co., 
Virginia (the altitude of which is over four thousand 
feet), in the summer of 1889. 
The song of the Magnolia is loud, clear, slightly like 
that of the Yellow Warbler so far as tone is concerned, 
and unique in the arrangement of the (generally) seven 
notes. The first four have a rising inflection, or an in- 
definite upward progression to the extent of a fourth in- 
terval, and among the next three the middle one is the 
highest; the song begins loud and ends with a diminu- 
endo, thus: 
f ane ett 
e e dim e 
That is the form which I know best, and here it is 
according to my notation: 
Vivace t+ 3times 8va. aim 
Once in a while a very indistinct high note is added 
to this form. Here is another common form which I 
think fits Rev. J. H. Langille’s syllables exceedingly 
well, though possibly it is not exactly the song he 
heard: 
Here is also another which fits one of Mr. S. E. White’s 
series of nals (see the Auk) perfectly: 
There are probably five or six forms of the song, but 
I have none other than the three foregoing ones. It 
is evident from these and the testimony of several writ- 
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