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Granville, in heavy woods composed mostly of deciduous trees, 

 chestnut predominating, with an occasional tulip, rock maple, 

 birch and oak, and a few white pine and hemlocks, always 

 with a thick undergrowth of mountain laurel ; here I have 

 regularly found it for the last six summers the most abundant 

 warbler in that region, excepting perhaps the oven bird. 



655. Dendroica coronata (I/inn.). MYRTLE 

 WARBLER. An abundant .spring and autumn migrant. A 

 person in whose accuracy in such matters I have great faith, 

 informed me that in the pine woods near the main entrance to 

 Forest park in Springfield, in the summer of 1900, for nearly 

 half an hour he watched a pair feeding their newly-fledged 

 young. Except on high elevations this is considerably south 

 of their usual breeding range. 



657. Dendroica maculosa (Gmel.). MAGNOLIA 

 WARBLER. A common spring and autumn migrant, and I 

 presume it occasionally breeds in the west part of Blandford 

 and Chester. 



658. Dendroica rara (Wils.) CERULEAN WARBLER. 

 A very rare visitor from the West ; taken at Suffield June 12, 

 1875 (Bull. Nutt. Club 2, page 21). W. A. Stearns reported 

 the capture of three in Amherst, May 19, 1884 ; all females, 

 he says, ' ' they were taken in a thicket back of the college 

 buildings and near a grove of mixed shrubbery." 



659. Dendroica pensylvanica (I<inn.). CHESTNUT- 

 SIDED WARBLER. Abundant summer resident. 



660. Dendroica castanea (Wils.)- BAY-BREASTED 

 WARBLER. Usually rather rare spring and autumn migrant ; 

 occasionally common; in May, 1900, for a few days it was 

 actually abundant. They then came into the very center of 

 the city of Springfield in great numbers ; nearly every tree in 

 and around Court square contained one or more, and at Tat- 

 ham, in West Springfield, after an unusually cold night, I found 

 them feeding on the ground in my garden in a small flock. 



