BIRDS OF NEW YORK 4JI 



this warbler is a common summer resident of the Catskill and Adirondack 

 districts, and breeds locally throughout the cooler swamps, gullies and high- 

 lands of central and western New York. Its nest has been recorded from 

 Tonawanda swamp, Orleans county (Langille); Remsen and Holland 

 Patent, Oneida county (Ralph and Bagg); Stockbridge, Madison county 

 (Maxon); Hamilton and Shedd's Corners (Embody); Seneca and Clark's 

 Glens, Canandaigua lake (Eaton); Springville, Erie county (Eaton); near 

 Mayville, Chautauqua county (Kibbe); Hamburg, Erie county (Savage); 

 gullies of Keuka lake (Burtch and Stone). During the migration season 

 it is common throughout central and western New York and in the Hudson 

 valley, but is recorded as uncommon on Long Island, arriving from April 

 30 to May 8, average date May 5; sometimes appears as early as April 26. 

 The main migration is passed by the 2 1st to the 3ist of May. In the 

 fall the return migration may be noted from August 15 to September 7, 

 the last being noted between October 5 and 16. 



Haunts and habits. The Blackburnian warbler during the migration 

 season associates with the Magnolia, Bay-breasted and Chestnut-sided 

 warblers among the blossoming fruit trees and the leaving shrubbery and 

 shade trees of our lawns and parks. During the nesting season, however, 

 it is almost entirely confined to mixed and evergreen forests, being especially 

 fond of hemlocks and spruces. In the Adirondacks we noticed it as one 

 of the characteristic woodland warblers, being practically as abundant in 

 the depths of the forest as about the edges of the clearings or along the 

 streams and edges of the swamps. In the gullies and swamps of central 

 New York I have never found it in the nesting season except where there 

 is a liberal sprinkling of hemlocks, which it seems to prefer to the pine, 

 and the old name of Hemlock warbler which was applied to the young 

 of this species is perfectly appropriate. The Blackburnian flutters about 

 while feeding almost as conspicuously as the Redstart and Magnolia, 

 displaying its brillant colors and pied pattern very effectively. 



The song is heard during migration time as well as in the nesting 

 coverts, described by Thayer as " Thin, but exquisitely smooth in all the 



