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Monroe County: One noted, April 28, 1886, near Rocky Run road north of 
Bloomington. It was on a hillside and warbling joyously. 
‘176. Mwyntoriera vArTA (Linneus). BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER. (636) 
A rare summer resident, but more common during the migrations. An 
interesting little bird, climbing around the tree trunks after the manner 
of a creeper. Nests on the ground in the woods, at the base of some small 
shrub or bunch of weeds. 
Carroll County: 1884, April 28. first noted and common, May 10, one 
collected near the New Beauty schoolhouse, Tippecanoe Township; 1885, 
April 26, first of season seen, on Deer Creek above Camden. 
Vigo County: A male collected. April 26, 1888, by J. D. Collins near the 
river north of Terre Haute: another by me May 10, 1890, at Sand Hill east 
of Terre Haute; and a week later still another at the Goose Pond nine miles 
south of Terre Haute. 
Monroe County: Common: often seen on the densely wooded hillsides 
northeast of Bloomington. 
177. PROTONOTARIA CITREA (Boddaert). GOLDEN SWAMP WARBLER. (637) 
This is to me the most beautiful and interesting of all our warblers 
Except for one fine male collected and two females seen, May 7, 1885, at 4 
little pond near the Leonard mill east of Camden and, possibly, one in a 
willow swamp southwest of Terre Haute in May, 1889, I know this bird 
only from the old Maple Swamp between Sedalia and Cutler, Carroll County 
and just east of the Vandalia railroad. I visited this swamp on May 21 
1883. Soon after entering the swamp I caught a glimpse of a bright-colored 
bird as it flew from a hole in a small dead snag not far away and disap- 
peared in a thicket near by. Soon it reappeared, evidently solicitous for its 
treasures which were in the nest in the old snag. By short flights and 
with much anxiety, it approached the snag and I saw that it was the 
Golden Swamp Warbler. Its nest contained five beautiful fresh eggs. Later 
in the day several other nests were found which we did not molest, one 
of four, one of three, and five or six not yet completed. They were all in 
deserted sapsucker holes. or similar holes in small dead snags or trees and 
four to ten feet above the water. 
In another part of the swamp were several of these birds not yet mated. 
The pairing season was on, and the birds were in active courtship. Many 
a combat between rival males was witnessed. Near the center of the 
swamp was an acre of comparatively open water, a pond in fact, covered 
with a thick growth of water-lilies. From the edge of this pond a couple 
of males darted by us across the open space, then circled about the pond, 
the one in close pursuit of the other. Often they crossed and recrossed the 
open water, circled around its margin, then darted off through the trees 
and disappeared from yiew, only to return again after a time and repeat 
the same performance. Sometimes the one was not a coward and stood his 
ground. Then a fierce conflict occurred; frequently they would clinch and 
fall nearly to the water before letting loose. Then they would ascend in a 
spiral flight far up among the tree tops, only to return promptly to the pond 
