SVLVICULID.E — TlIK WAKBLKRS. 237 



Spaiiisli moss. The i^'irs are five in nuinU'r, of u pure white with a few red- 

 dish spots aljoiit the hir;,'er end. When distuil»e<l (hiring inruhatinn, the 

 fenude is said t«» trail ah)n^' tlie l>raiulies with (h«iopin«^' win;;s and phiintive 

 notes, in the niaiuier of // irstini. After tlie young have left the nest, they 

 move and liunt together, in conijiany witli their parents, evincing great activ- 

 itv in tlie ]>ursuit of insects. Thev are also said to liave a great i>artialitv 

 for trees the tops of which are thickly covered with gi-.ipevines, and to occa- 

 sionally alight on tall weeds, feeding upon their seeils. 



In his visit to Texas, Mr. Auduhon met a large numher of these birds 

 apparently coming from Mexico. On one occasion he encountereil a large 

 fiock on a small island. 



Mr. Xuttall mentions finding these hirds very ahundant in Tennessee, and 

 also in West Florida. 



In onlv a sin«rle instance has the writer met with this Warlder. This was 

 ahout the middle (»f June, at the Fairnmunt Water Works in the city of Thila- 

 delj)hia, where, among the tops of the trees, a single individual was busily 

 engaged in hunting insects, undisturbed by tiiv* large numbers and vicinity 

 of visitors to the grounds, lb kept in the tops of the trees, moving about 

 with great agility. 



^Ir. llidgway gives the Ca^rulean Warbler as the most abundant species 

 of its genus in the Lower Wabash Valley, not only during the sj^ring and 

 fall migrations, but also in the summer, when it breeds more plentifully even 

 than the D. a.sfira. It inhabits, however, only the deep woods of the bot- 

 tom lands, where it is seldom seen, and «»nly to be distinguished by the nat- 

 uralist. Inhabiting, mostly, the tree-tops, it is an incons])icuous bird, and 

 thus one that easily escapes notice. In its haoits it is ])erhaps less interest- 

 ing than others of its genus, being so retired, and possessing only the most 

 feeble notes. 



Dendroica blackbumisB, Hviiin. 



BLACKBUSNIAN WARBLEB; 0BAV6E-THB0ATEB WABBLEB. 



MoUicilhi hhickbui'Hur, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 977. Siilvia hi. Lath. ; WiL.soy, III. 

 1>1. x.xiii. — NuTT. ; Ari». Orn. Bi»>ii. II, V. ]•]. cx.xxv, cooxcix. Siilvirola hf. Jaud. ; 

 Kicn. ; Am. Ilinis Am. II, ]•!. Ixxxvii. L'/nitn'iijthifM U. V\w. Miis. Iltiii. 18'»ti, 19. 

 Ikiidroica f>L IVviKD, Binls X. Am. 18.">8, 274: luv. 1S<». — Silaiki: it Salvin, Il.is, 

 1859, 11 ((Imitemala). — Sclatki:, 1'. Z. S. Lsr.9, 30:? (.Xalapa) ; Il». lh»JO, 04 (>Aua<lor). 



— Ib. C'atal. 1801, :30, no. 187 (I'allatan'^'a and Xam'ual, Kciuulor). — Samckls, 227. 



— SUNDEVALL, < >tV. 1809, Oil. - DliF.s.^F.li, Ibi.s, 1805, 478. ! Miitoc'dhi rhrifsocejdtrd't^ 

 (Jmelin, I, 1788, 971 (Fiifi't'cr onm'je if F. etrauijer. Huff. V, 313, pi. Iviii, fig. 3, 

 (•iiiana). Si/h'ui pnrus, AVii.s. V, }»1. xliv, H<;. 3. — Aui». (^rn. Biog. II, pi. exxxiv. 

 i>t(/ricola p<irufi, AcD. Birds .\m. II, j>l. Ixxxiii. Si/ln'(r lifi'ralis, Steph. f Mofocilla 

 iiu-iiii'i, Gmel. I, 178^, 970. Si/froi iiicinitt, Lath. ; Vieill. f Sijh'ic uhdanorfuHy, 

 Vnii.L. Xouv. Diit. XI. 1817, IM) (Maitini.|m'). — In. Eneycl. Meth. II, 444. 



Localities quoted : IJoifoff, Sclatek, P. Z. S. 185.'*, 14:5. Panama, Lawr. Ann. X. Y. 

 Lye. VII, 62. Cofsfa Riax, Cap.. J<mr. 1S«;0, 328. P.nhin\a>i, Bkyant, IWt. Tr. Vll, 

 1659. VcrayuUf Salvix. Orizaba (winter ; rare), SuMiciiK.isT. 



