THE WESTERN PARULA WARBLER. 133 
of the Crystal Spring, so well known to Columbus picnickers, we saw a Parula 
taking a noonday bath. The bird permitted a close approach during his icy 
ablutions. After this, upon a couch of tangled vines, he took a sun-bath in 
leisurely fashion, preening, and shaking himself now and then until he looked 
like a little blue and yellow pincushion. ‘Then he whisked into a tree-top and 
was lost in a trice. 
Taken near Sugar Grove. ~ : ’ mY : es : Photo by the Author. 
VIEW LOOKING WEST ACROSS THE HOCKING RIVER. 
PARULAS NEST IN THESE WOODED HILLS. 
In nesting, the Parula makes artful use of bunches of moss, or even 
drift material left by a receding freshet. The moss is caught up and woven 
into a pendulous subspherical mass, or if bulky enough already, the bird may 
simply pull and pry and excavate a convenient hollow. Again the nest may 
be entirely constructed of materials laboriously gathered. A writer in Penn- 
sylvania, Mrs. T. D. Dershimer, reports two such nests in hemlock trees. 
