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Swallows, Black-and-white Warblers, Yellow Warblers, Water- 

 thrushes and Redstarts; later come Indigo Buntings, Magnolia 

 and Tennessee Warblers, Catbirds, and Olive-backed Thrushes, 

 with variable but usually small numbers of Chestnut-sided, Bay- 

 breasted, Blackburnian, and Black-throated Green Warblers. 

 Coastwise, the Bobolink is very common in fall. 



The common mixed woodland of the delta region is rather 

 more uninteresting in fall than in spring; by September most of its 

 few characteristic birds have grown inconspicuous; the greatest 

 concourses of birds, summer visitors and transients alike, are to be 

 found then in or near open situations. The Hooded Warbler holds 

 its stations the most closely. The Prothonotary Warbler ranges 

 rather widely as early as July, and in willow-dotted fields I have 

 observed individuals in obvious transient progress during that 

 month. The Parula Warbler is very variable in this respect, 

 though their general tendency is to seek the open even more than 

 during spring and summer. The deep woods in Louisiana, in fact, 

 are never the characteristic situation in which to find this species. 



Rank growths of tall weeds, especially elder, goldenrod, and 

 'blood- weed' (Ambrosia trifida), along ditches and about the edges 

 of fields, often prove attractive observing grounds during the fall; 

 warblers seem especially drawn to such places. 



It is a strange circumstance that the characteristic woodland of 

 the delta region should harbor at least as many birds in winter 

 as it does in summer; as a matter of fact, there are probably more 

 individuals quartered in these woods in winter than in summer. 

 Woodpeckers, Blackbirds, Goldfinches, White-throated and Swamp 

 Sparrows, Blue-headed Vireos, Orange-crowned and Myrtle War- 

 blers, Titmice, Thrashers, Wrens, Hermit Thrushes, Robins, and 

 Kinglets frequent the bare woods about as freely as they do the 

 open and thickets of partially evergreen vines and bushes, such 

 as wax myrtle, brambles, small oaks, baccharis, and smilax. The 

 only species that will not be found in these woods in winter are 

 those invariably found in fields in other regions : the Meadowlark, 

 Savanna Sparrow, and American Pipit; the Palm Warbler, the 

 Mockingbird and the Bluebird, of course, should be added to this 

 list of exceptions, and probably both the Long-billed and Short- 

 billed Marsh Wrens. The Winter Wren, the House Wren, and 



