IA.A. Kopman, Birds of Jefferson Parish, La. \_\p^. 



45. Compsothlypis americana ramelinae. Parula Warbler. — As 

 abundant as usual, many having begun to nest. Arrived March 7. 



46. Protonotaria citrea. Prothonotary Warbler. — Hardly as 

 widely distributed as March 30. The first came March 19. 



47. Helinaia swainsonii. Swainson's Warbler. — In a brake of 

 switchcane in a rather dense wood of Texas red oak, water oak, live 

 oak, box elder, red maple, ash, haw, hackberry, and elm, where we can 

 usually count on finding this species in spring, we heard several singing, 

 and Andrew Allison took one specimen. The notes of this species were 

 almost constantly intermingled with those of the Hooded Warbler, to 

 which they bear considerable resemblance. We observed that the first 

 part of the song was tremulous and quavering, highly modulated and 

 slightly complex, but that the termination was very similar to notes of 

 the Hooded Warbler. The species had probably arrived several days 

 before. We have never been able to prove that the spot where we found 

 it is a breeding ground, though the species is well established there in the 

 middle spring. 



48. Dendroica dominica albilora. Sycamore Warbler. — The species 

 was not singing much. The first arrived March 12. 



49. Dendroica coronata. Myrtle Warbler. — Noted only a few. 

 The bird is sometimes still abundant this late, but the mild character of 

 the whole spring had advanced their movement a week or so. 



50. Dendroica aestiva. Yellow Warbler. — Where I had seen the 

 first bird of the season, March 30, in some willows in the slough, there 

 was still one this day. It was doubtless the same bird, and was in song 

 as on the previous occasion. April 2 had been the earliest date for arrival 

 previous to this. 



51. Geothlypis formosa. Kentucky Warbler. — There had been no 

 special increase in numbers over the number seen March 30, when the first 

 arrived. 



52. Geothlypis trichas. Maryland Yellow-throat. — Saw only a 

 few. 



53. Wilsonia mitrata. Hooded Warbler. — As abundant as usual. 

 The first had arrived March 12. 



54. Parus carolinensis. Carolina Chickadee. — Nothing out of the 

 ordinary was noted in regard to this common resident. 



55. Baeolophus bicolor. Tufted Titmouse.- 5 - In statu quo, like the 

 Chickadee. 



56. Mimus polyglottos. Mockingbird. — Owing to the prevalence of 

 trapping in Jefferson Parish before the new bird law was passed, Mock- 

 ingbirds have not been very common there of late years, and we saw only 

 a few, at distant points. 



57. Galeoscoptes carolinensis. Catbird — The spring transients of 

 this species are rarelv present here in large numbers. We saw but two. 



58. Toxostoma rufum. Brown Thrasher. — Common and somewhat 

 musical. These birds were probably all transients, certainly not summer 

 visitors, as the species is not known as a breeder in southern Louisiana. 



