WARBLERS 



571 



Athabasca ; migrating southward along the Atlantic coast, from the Ohio 

 Valley eastward ; wintering in Peru and Ecuador ; not recorded from Florida 

 for the last thirty years. 



County Records. — Androscoggin ; rare summer resident, (Johnson). Aroos- 

 took ; common at Fort Fairfield, (Batchelder, B.N. 0. C. 7, p. 110) ; common 

 throughout the county in the deeper, mossy carpeted, mosquito infested 

 woods, (Knight). Cumberland; rather common summer resident, (Brown, 

 C. B. P. p. 10). Franklin ; common summer resident, (Richards). Hancock ; 

 not common in migrations and still rarer as a summer resident, (Mrs. W. H. 

 Gardner) ; locally common in northern sections of county as summer resi- 

 dent, (Knight). Kennebec; rare summer resident, (Larrabee). Knox; sum- 

 mer, (Rackliff). Oxford ; occurs at Upton, (Brewster, B. N. O. C. 3, p. 61). 

 Penobscot; common migrant, locally common summer resident, (Knight). 

 Piscataquis; not common, (Homer). Sagadahoc; not uncommon migrant, 

 (Spinney). Somerset; quite common summer resident, (Morrell). Waldo; 

 at least a pair bred at Islesboro, two being seen July 9, 1900, (Howe, J. M. 0. 

 S. 1901, p. 15); locally common summer resident, (Knight). Washington; 

 common summer resident, (Boardman). 



I have seen the species near Bangor as early as April 

 twenty-fifth, but they more usually arrive from May tenth to 

 fifteenth, and remain in fall until the very last of August, and 

 more rarely the first part of September. In migration they 

 frequent the open woods, pine uplands, and shrubbery to quite 

 an extent, feeding in the limbs of the trees, catching much of 

 their prey on the wing, and in general following the habits of 

 related species. They eat moths, flies, beetles, grubs, cater- 

 pillars of the smooth, hairless type such as canker worms, the 

 eggs of insects, spiders, mosquitoes and similar insects. The 

 general song uttered is much like "su su swe su su" and in 

 Warbler Songs Mr. Jones gives a very similar version, "tu tu 

 tswe tu tu" and also quotes Mr. Thompson as giving a version 

 like "rup-it-chee, rup-it-chee, rup-it-chit-it-lit" which song or 

 anything approaching it I have never heard uttered by our 

 Maine individuals. The most often call is a "chuck," "chip" 

 or "tchip" which serves as a call note or as a note of indigna- 

 tion or alarm when uttered louder and more sharply. 



In the nesting season as far as my observations go they 

 resort to the deeper woods which are thick overhead and more 

 open underneath, mossy carpeted, dotted with clumps of ferns 



