THE PROTHONOTARY WARBLER. 



Range in Ohio. Rare during migration. Summer resident in restricted 

 localities, such as the Grand and Licking Reservoirs, and the major streams 

 draining into the Ohio. Casual elsewhere. 



PRE-EMINENT in a galaxy of beauties is this truly "golden" Warbler 

 of the swamps. He does not come over hill and dale with a rush and flutter 

 of wings and a nervous anxiety to get on, such as characterizes most of the 

 northern migrants, but proceeds rather in leisurely fashion along the valleys 

 of the larger streams. Sedate in movement and fearless, but not bold, in bear- 

 ing, this rare bird appears to bring with him something of the languorous air 

 of the South-land from 

 which he hails. His 

 chosen haunts, too, 

 flooded lowland woods, 

 are even more strongly 

 suggestive of those wa- 

 tery fastnesses of the 

 south, where the spe- 

 cies is found in greatest 

 abundance. 



Indeed, it is within 

 comparatively recent 

 times that the Prothon- 

 otary Warbler has be- 

 come known as a bird 

 of Ohio. Dr. Wheat- 

 cm first reported it in 

 1862 on hearsay evi- 

 dence. It was after- 

 wards found breeding at 

 the St. Mary's reser- 

 voir by Mr. Charles 

 Dury, of Cincinnati. In 

 the spring of 1902, Mr. 

 Irving A. Fieldof Gran- 

 ville found it breeding 



at several places about the Licking Reservoir, where I also had the pleasure 

 of studying it. both at that time and during the season of 1903. On the 

 28th of April, 1902, I observed a male on the banks of the Olentangy near 

 Columbus, and again two days later. 



As one walks along that portion of the containing levee of Licking Reser- 

 voir shown in our first illustration, a glance to the right discovers only the 

 lapping waves and the rough rubble of the levee, but at the left the gaze falls 



Photo by t 

 Auth 



\ PROTHOXOTARY WARBLER'S FRONT YARD. 



WATER S EDGH 



LICKING RESE 



