THE WESTERN PARULA WARBLER. 



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of the Crystal Spring, so well known to Columbus picnickers, we saw a Parula 

 taking a noonday bath. The bird permitted a close approach during his icy 

 ablutions. After this, upon a couch of tangled vines, he took a sun-bath in 

 leisurely fashion, preening, and shaking himself now and then until he looked 

 like a little blue and yellow pincushion. Then he whisked into a tree-top and 

 was lost in a trice. 



Taken near Sugar Crorc. 



Photo by the Author. 



VIEW LOOKING WEST ACROSS THE HOCKING RIVER. 



PARULAS NEST IN THESE WOODED HILLS. 



In nesting, the Parula makes artful use of bunches of moss, or even 

 drift material left by a receding freshet. The moss is caught up and woven 

 into a pendulous subspherical mass, or if bulky enough already, the bird may 

 simply pull and pry and excavate a convenient hollow. Again the nest may 

 be entirely constructed of materials laboriously gathered. A writer in Penn- 

 sylvania, Mrs. T. D. Dershimer. reports two such nests in hemlock trees. 



