THE PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. 115 
Range in Ohio.—Rare during migration. Summer resident in restricted 
localities, such as the Grand and Licking Reservoirs, and the major streams 
draining into the Ohio. Casual elsewhere. 
PRE-EMINENT in a galaxy of beauties is this truly “golden” Warbler 
of the swamps. He does not come over hill and dale with a rush and flutter 
of wings and a nervous anxiety to get on, such as characterizes most of the 
northern migrants, but proceeds rather in leisurely fashion along the valleys 
of the larger streams. Sedate in movement and fearless, but not bold, in bear- 
ing, this rare bird appears to bring with him something of the languorous air 
of the South-land from 
which he hails. His 
chosen haunts, too, 
flooded lowland woods, 
are even more strongly 
suggestive of those wa- 
tery fastnesses of the 
south, where the spe- 
cies is found in greatest 
abundance. 
Indeed, it is within 
comparatively — recent 
times that the Prothon- 
otary Warbler has be- 
come known as a bird 
of Ohio. Dr. Wheat- 
on first reported it in 
1862 on hearsay evi- 
dence. It was after- 
wards found breedingat iesor bap the 
the St. Mary's reser- 
voir by Mr. Charles 
Dury, of Cincinnati. In 
ie Sardine ales ta alee 
Irving A. Field« yf Gran- LICKING COUNTY, OHIO. 
A PROTHONOTARY WARBLER’S FRONT YARD. 
ville found it breeding 
at several places about the Licking Reservoir, where I also had the pleasure 
of studying it, both at that time and during the season of 1903. On the 
28th of April, 1902, I observed a male on the banks of the Olentangy near 
Columbus, and again two days later. 
As one walks along that portion of the containing levee of Licking Reser- 
voir shown in our first illustration, a glance to the right discovers only the 
lapping waves and the rough rubble of the levee, but at the left the gaze falls 
