132 THE WESTERN PARULA WARBLER. 
since Kirtland’s time, leaving a hiatus between the two subspecies, which at 
present consists of northern Ohio and southern Ontario. If closer atten- 
tion discovers breeding birds in the northern part of the state, they will 
probably prove to be avant couriers of the southwestern bird, C. a. ramalinae. 
No. 59. 
WESTERN PARULA WARBLER. 
A. O. U. No. 648a, part. Compsothiypis americana ramalinze Ridgway. 
Description.—Similar in coloration to C. a. usneac, but averaging somewhat 
smaller. Length of male 4.40 (111.7); wing 2.26 (57.5); tail 1.61 (40.9) ; bill 
39 (9.9). Recently elaborated by Ridgway but status and distribution not yet 
clearly defined. 
General Range.—Locally distributed throughout the Mississippi Valley and 
its tributaries, west to the Plains, north to Canada, and east to western Ohio and 
Michigan. 
Range in Ohio.—Believed to be the breeding bird; nowhere common but 
generally distributed. 
DURING the spring migrations the Parula Warbler is the most restless 
midget of all that motley host which throngs the tree-tops. One tries in vain 
to catch him at rest, if but for the fraction of a second, that he may feast his 
eyes upon those rare beauties. But no; the little body is swayed by a thousand 
passions, and each movement must do duty for an hour. It is both moving- 
time and mating-time, and to see him bustling about in such a mighty flurry 
one guesses that Chaucer’s lines must be true of him: 
“So hote he lovede that by nightertale 
He sleep namore than doth the nightingale 
ory 
Arrived, however, upon the summer camping ground and secure in his 
mistress’s affections, our hot lover becomes much more sedate. One observed 
closely at McConnelsville in May, 1993, moved about with great deliberation, 
stopping for several minutes at a time upon a given twig, where he sang at 
frequent intervals. The song consisted of distinctly syllabized 2 notes, wind- 
ing up with a squeak of an entirely different character, Zu su su su Zuee tsip. 
The whole was of a hair-like fineness, and had no great carrying power. 
During the same season in the wooded hills about Sugar Grove I saw 
parents leading about full-grown young on the roth of June. In the overflow 
