322 Wright, Morning Awakening and Even-Song. [july 



at 3.52 one sang beside the road in the foreground. As the Red- 

 eyes do not average to sing before 3.43, quite Hkely this single 

 record is fairly representative. 



30. The Nashville Warbler {Vermivora rubricapilla ruhrica- 

 jnlla) has been heard but twice, namely, at 3.50 and 3.56 o'clock. 

 The nesting haunts of the species on the Highland are usually 

 beyond the range of hearing. The time of first song based on the 

 two records obtained, when a bird was located sufficiently near, is 

 3.53 o'clock. 



31. The Magnolia Warbler {Dendroica magnolia) has been 

 heard on seven occasions, the time of the first song varying from 

 3.42 (twice) and 3.47 to 4.09 (twice). The average time is 3.55 

 o'clock. On the two other occasions the first song heard was at 

 3.58 and 3.59 o'clock. A single bird only is usually within the 

 range of hearing and is sometimes heard at intervals for twenty or 

 thirty minutes or even an hour. 



32. Goldfinch {Astragalmus tristis tristis). The first call, 

 as based on eleven records, averages at 3.58 o'clock, the time rang- 

 ing from 3.49, 3.50 (twice), 3.52 and 3.54 to 4.10 and 4.18 o'clock. 

 Calls have invariably constituted the earliest records, and later 

 by some minutes the song has been heard, if given at all; for in 

 June and early July the joyous outpouring of song on the wing is 

 not as much given as somewhat later in the season. 



33. The Black and White Warbler (Mniotilta varia) has 

 been heard on one occasion only, namely, at 4-04 o'clock. 



34. Purple Finch (Carpodacus purpureus j^wrpureus). The 

 relative position is based on ten records which range from 3.18, 

 3.37 and 3.43 to 4.40 and 4.46 and furnish an average of 4-05 as the 

 time of its first voicing. On several occasions a bird has sung. At 

 other times the call-note only has been heard either from one in 

 flight or from several feeding in a near Juneberry tree (Amelanchier 

 canadensis), which were giving little thought to song, while they 

 eagerly feasted on the small fruit. In this tree on July 4, 1908, 

 at 4 o'clock one sang while several were engaged in feeding. On an- 

 other occasion two were seen in this tree silently eating the fruit 

 at 4.20, which had given neither call nor song that had been heard 

 and were apparently absorbed in first satisfying their hunger. 



35. The Blackburnian Warbler {Dendroica fusca) has fur- 



