592 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
CCXXVII. COMPSOTHLYPIS Casanis. 1850. 
648. Northern Parula Warbler. 
Compsothlypis americana usne@ BREWSTER. 1896. 
One specimen sent from the southern inspectorate of Greenland 
in 1857. (Arct. Man.) A rare summer resident, occurring inland 
on hardwood trees, Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Infrequently ob- 
served on Prince Edward Island, and generally in the upper 
branches of hardwood forest. (Dwight.) A rare summer 
resident at St. John, N.B. (Chamberlain.) A tolerably common 
summer resident at Scotch Lake, York Co., N.B. (W. A. Moore.) 
Seen near Port Hawkesbury, Cape Breton Island, and at Fox 
Bay, Anticosti. (Bvewster.) Taken at Beauport; rare in the 
vicinity of Quebec in summer. (Deonne.) A common transient 
visitant at Montreal. Shot a male and two female specimens 
of this warbler in May, 1890, on the spur of Mount Royal, 
(Wintle.) 
A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. 
(Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. V.) A specimen of this species was shot 
on acurrant bush in a garden at Kingston, Ont., in May, 1899. 
(Rev. C. J. Young.) A common summer resident in the Parry 
Sound and Muskoka districts. They arrive about the middle of- 
May, and for the first two weeks keep to the highest trees. 
(J. H. Fleming.) Not common in Algonquin Park, Ont. Nearly 
always seen up in the tops of trees. (Spreadborough.) Abundant 
in spring and fall at Toronto. The earliest arrivals I have noted 
being on 5th May, 1896. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) A passing migrant 
at Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) Of four specimens taken in the 
Thames valley, in western Ontario, by Mr Robert Elliott and 
Mr. W. E. Saunders two are said to be typical of the northern 
form wsne@, the other two not being quite typical of the 
southern form. (Robert Elhott,in The Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. 
XVI., p. 95.) 
BREEDING Norss.—I have no particular data regarding nesting 
season, but a nest was found 4o feet up a yellow birch tree com- 
posed of a few fine rootlets and feathers worked into a growth of 
Usnea that hung below a limb three-quarters of an inch in 
diameter and about eight inches below the limb. (W. Z. 
Moore.) 
