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, XVIIIl KiRKWOOD, Cerulean Warbler in Maryland. ^39 



seen near it though it was watched for a long time. It was 



placed on lowest branch but one, five feet out from tree and 



thirty-five feet, eight inches up from ground. It was completely 



gone on 25th. 



June 25. See one singing in different trees in gate woods. 

 Once it dressed its feathers, sitting on a dead twig and sing 

 ing all the time, otherwise it was hunting slowly like a Worm- 

 eating Warbler. It would sing for about twenty minutes and 

 then fly oft', and we could not locate it until it started to sing 

 again. On one occasion while watching it singing, heard 

 another about one hundred yards off. 



July 2. Singing as I enter gate woods ; it stopped at 10.18 a. m., 

 flew to another tree, sang a few times and stopped. Com- 

 menced again at 11.04 ^'^'^^ s?ing eight minutes, when it came 

 do\Nn from branches to a nearly rotten stump not two 

 feet high and hunted round it for several minutes, then flying 

 off. Sings again from 11. 31 for ten minutes (12.15 to 

 12.45 '^"^ house for dinner). Do not hear it again until 5.45 

 p. u., it then sings right along to 6.15, when I go to supper. 



July 3. At 9.15 A. M. sings several times ; 9.25, sings four or five 

 times, 9.31 started and sings nineteen minutes. It then flies 

 from top of one high chestnut to another and chased a Gold- 

 finch out of sight. A few minutes later.it was singing again 

 and kept on incessantly, first in one tree then in another 

 until I get a stiff neck and leave at n a. m. 



July 4. Sang from 9.21 a. m. for eighteen minutes, and from 9-59 

 for seven minutes. Do not hear it again until 7.27 p. m., 

 when it sang for twelve minutes ; later it sang off and on 

 until 7.32, when I heard last song for the day. 



July 9. See one, with only slight indications of a collar on either 

 side. Singing off and on all day in gate woods. 



July 16. 9.46 A. M., sang for about twenty minutes ; rather more 

 sluggish than usual. 



July 27. Singing in pig woods. 



July 30. One sings eight to ten times in woods west of pike near 

 point where it was first seen on June 11. 



Aug. 10. One singing in pig woods. 



Aug. 13. One singing in pig woods. 



