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184. CoMPSOTHLYPIS AMERICANA AMERICANA (Linneus). 
PARULA WARBLER. (648) 
A fairly common spring and fall migrant. Especially common in Carroll 
County May 4 to 10, 1885; collected a male May 6, 1885. 
In Vigo County many noted May 9, 1888, and a brilliantly colored male 
collected at the Sand Hill, April 24, 1890. 
Noted also in Monroe County especially in the spring. 
185. DENDROICA TIGRINA (Gmelin). CAPE MAY WARBLER. (650) 
A common spring and fall migrant. Arrives about the middle of May; 
most common in low trees along streams. Noted in Carroll County May 8, 
1885, and on many other dates. Noted in Vigo County May 8 and 9, 1888; 
also on May 10 when a female was collected at Sand Hill; again on May 
17, 1890, when a pair were collected at the Goose Pond. Equally common 
in Monroe County ; often noted along Griffy and Beanblossom creeks.  , 
186. DENDROICA ZSTIVA STIVA (Gmelin). YELLOW WARBLER. (652 
A fairly common summer resident. Arrives from the south in the latter 
part of April and remains until in September. 
This beautiful little bird is our most common and familiar summer resi- 
dent warbler. One or more pairs may usually be seen in any patch of 
willows along the river or any creek or about ponds. It is also frequently 
seen in the orchards. It builds a very pretty nest of grayish vegetable fiber, 
fastening it to twigs of fruit or shade trees or willows or low shrubbery of 
any kind. 
Carroll County: May 22, 18838, shot one in yard on home farm; first of 
season noted. In spring of 1883, obtained several at Miller’s pond near 
Burlington, the only one seen there prior to May 8, 1884. May 8, 1885, saw 
one in old orchard near Springboro, first of season: two seen on 12th and 
one got in Dolph McKinney's yard in Camden; on 13 saw two and got 
one in an old orchard near Porter Sterling’s south of Camden; April 28, 
1885, saw one or two near Pittsburg, and again May 4. 
Vigo County: April 22, 1888, two seen; May 15, a female collected south- 
east of Terre Haute; May 1, 1890, a male collected 5 miles south of Terre 
Haute; May 17, a female shot at the Goose Pond; April 28, 1891, noted. 
Monroe County: May 13, 1882, several; May 4, 1886, a male collected 
in orchard north of Bloomington, first of season; 6th, two seen, one col- 
lected, in White River bottoms near Gosport. 
187. DENDROICA C42RULESCENS CZERULESCENS (Gmelin). 
BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER. (654) 
A fairly common spring and fall migrant. Most often seen on or near 
the ground in low shrubbery in open woods. 
Carroll County: May 3, 1883, one seen near Burlington, and again on the 
Sth; on 10th and again on 13th, saw one or more between Camden and 
Delphi; May 7, 1884, saw a few and collected one near the Frank Thomas 
pond south of Camden, first noted ; noted again May 4, 1885. 
