1044 Report of State Geologist. 



Carroll County, May 8, 1885, May 22, 1883, May 29, 1894; Lafayette, 

 April 28, 1896, May 21, 1895; Sedan, April 27, 1896, May 15, 1897; 

 Chicago, 111., May 4, 1895, May 13, 1886. In the fall they sometimes 

 begin to reappear late in August, and are slowly passing southward 

 through September, a few lingering until well into October. They 

 appeared in the vicinity of Chicago, 111., August 29, 1895, and re- 

 mained until September 14. The next year they came August 20, and 

 were seen September 21. In 1896, also, they appeared at Greensburg, 

 Ind., September 22, and did not all leave until October 12. They 

 were noted in the vicinity of Cincinnati, September 7, 1877, and Sep- 

 tember 22, 1878. The spring of 1885 they were very common in 

 Knox County. On May 9, Mr. Ridgway took five specimens. In May, 

 1892, they were generally common throughout the State. Mr. J. E. 

 Beasley, of Lebanon, says they were more common than he ever knew 

 them. They were passing for three or four weeks, and he saw them 

 almost every day he was out, but never more than two or three. Simi- 

 lar reports came from Lafayette, Greencastle, Wabash and Brookville. 

 The spring of 1896 they were common near Chicago, remaining until 

 May 27. That fall, also, they were very common in that vicinity, 

 and were reported as being abundant at Greensburg, Ind. The fall 

 of 1895 they were tolerably common near Chicago. In some localities 

 they are said to frequent the tops of tall trees. Some years with us 

 they are found upon the drier uplands, among the oak woods, where 

 they usually keep among the lower branches or upon the high bushes 

 and smaller trees. They are not very active, but keep persistently 

 hunting insects. At other times, we find them among our orchards, 

 even coming into towns, where they occupy themselves catching 

 insects among the foliage and about the blossoms of all kinds of 

 shade and fruit trees. May 6, 1897, at noon, I observed a Cape May 

 Warbler among the cedar and apple trees in my yard at Brookville. 

 It was very deliberate, but very industrious. The apple trees were 

 in full bloom. It went over them from lowest limb to topmost 

 branch, apparently visiting most of the blossoms. If it caught an 

 insect every time it appeared to, it must have taken hundreds. Even 

 the warm mid-day sun did not stop its work, and its little song only 

 sounded the clearer when those of many other birds had ceased. Its 

 notes seemed to nm like a-wit a-wit a-wit a-wit a-wit, each pair 

 of syllables repeated five times with moderate rapidity and in the same 

 tone, with no inflection. To me it sounded louder a hundred feet off 

 than it did at one-fifth that distance. This may have been due to 

 the sound having been reflected by a building where I stood at the 

 greater distance. At one time associated with it on the same tree 



