SYLVICnUn.E — THE WARBLKUS. 23U 



account of its habit nf k«'('|tiiii^' mnccaltMl aiiinii<4 tlic tlnisr fnliaj^'c. Mr. 

 luianhuaii ^ivcs tin? same acctmiit ot* its ivsjiilciue ill suiiimfr in the iu'i)4;h- 

 horhoo<l of < alais. 



Mr. AihIuImui did not rci,'anl tliis l)ir(l and his " Hemlock Waihlei" as the 

 same species, Imt j^ave distinct and ditVerent accounts «»f their hal>its. Wt» 

 have therefore to receive witli caution tliese records of jkm uliarities. He 

 found the r»lackl»urnian \Varlth*r lueidinij: in Xortlieastern Maine, in Xew 

 llrunswick, in the Ma^nhdeine Islan<ls, aud in Ldaador and Newfoundland. 

 He states, correctly, that it has a very sweet soni; of five or six notes, much 

 louder than seemed jtossihle from the size of the hird. It }>ursues its 

 insect i»rey amonj^ the hranches of the tir-tiees, moving' along after the man- 

 ner of the common fledstart. 



^Fr. McCuUoch, of Halifax, gave Mr. Audul)on a nest of this hird with 

 three eggs. The nest was formed externally of dilVerent textures, lined 

 with fine delicate strijis of hark and a thick hed t>f feathers and horse-hair. 

 The egj^s were small, (tonical, with a white ground s]»ottcd with liglit red 

 at the lari^er end. The nest was in the small fork of a tree five fei't from 

 the ground, and near a hrook. 



The nest obtained in Koxhury was in a hush, a few feet from the ground, 

 in a very wild region of forest and rocks. Externally, except in its length, 

 which was less, it resembled a nest of the d. trirlm^i, being made of coarse, 

 dry grasses. Internally it was much more warmly lined with feathers and 

 soft fur than is the case in iie^ts of the Yellow-Throat. The eggs were of 

 a crystal whiteness, marked at th»*ir hugiT end with dark puri>le, and but 

 for their smaller size might have been mistaken for th<»se of (}. frichas. 

 The position of <^he nest, however, was conclusive in regard to this ])oint. 

 The egg from ^' .. 3ntry was substantially similar, except that reddish-brown 

 dots were mingled with the pur^Je markings, in the form of a wreath around 

 the larger end. 



AVilson descril)es this Warl)ler as songless, but attributes to its counter- 

 part, the Hemlock Warbler, a very sweet song of a few low notes, — a very 

 ditt'erent account from that given bv Audubon of the song of the Black- 

 burnian. 



Mr. Paine states that this species is resident during the summer months in 

 liandol})h, Vt. It is, he says, a very close comj)anion of the D. riim.'i, arriv- 

 ing at the same time with it even to a dav, or about the Itltli of ^lav. Its 

 drv chiri)ing song mav then be heard in striking contrast with the sweet 

 notes of the rirnis. He was not able to find its nest. 



Mr. C. W. Wyatt met with this species as a winter resident at Alto, in (Co- 

 lombia, South America. Its upward range seemed to l)e terminated only by 

 the paramos. Among the oaks on the Pamplona road he found it very com- 

 mon just under the paramo, the bright orange throat of the male making it 

 a very conspicuous bird. He was led to believe that they were not found 

 there at a lower elevation than five thousand feet. 



