350 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



during the first two weeks of May, though I took one specimen as 

 late as May 21, in Winnebago county. In fall it appears during 

 the month of September. Morton E. Peck states that it is the 

 noisiest of the Warblers during migration, and does not usually 

 appear until the leaves are out. H. J. Giddings reports it as one 

 of the most common Warblers in Jackson county, being abundant 

 every spring, and not varying much in numbers. 



Dr. I. S. Trostler reports the Tennessee Warbler as a summer 

 resident in Mills and Pottawattamie counties, but he has no rec- 

 ords of nesting there. The species is usually found in the tree 

 tops during migrations, and frequently in low bushes, but seldom 

 on the ground. 



Genus Compsothlypis Cabanis. 



296. (648a). Co77ipsothlypis atnericaiia 7'a7nalni(z'R.\&g\\2iy. West- 



ern Parula Warbler. 



The Western Parula Warbler is a fairly common migrant in 

 eastern Iowa during the first two weeks in May, but was not re- 

 ported by any observers west of the middle line of the state. The 

 only specimen that I have observed in life was a female shot out 

 of the top of a tall tree at Forest City, W^innebago county, August 

 21, 1896. 



F. V. Hayden noted the Parula Warbler as "very abundant in 

 the months of May and June along the wooded bottoms of the 

 Missouri. Its minute size and rapid flight from limb to limb 

 among the tallest branches of the lofty cottonw^oods render it a 

 somewhat difficult bird to secure. It is most abundant on the 

 lower Mis.souri below Fort Pierre" (Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc, 

 XV, 1863, pp. 159-60). 



A male specimen in the Bond collection. No. 3,636, Mus. Univ. 

 of Iowa, taken at Tiffin (Johnson county), is typical 7'a77iali7i(C, 

 with broad dusky band across chest, bordered by chestnut poster- 

 iorly, and with chestnut-streaked sides. No. 8,911, male, was 

 taken at Iowa City, April 5, 1892. 



Genus Dendroica Gray. 



Subgenus PerissoglOvS.sa Baird. 



297. (650). Dc7idjvica tig7d7ia (Gmel.). Cape May Warbler. 

 The Cape May Warbler is a species which .seems to be' extend- 



