622 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 
CCLII. COMPSOTHLYPIS Caganis. 1850. 
648a. Northern Parula Warbler. 
Compsothlypis americana usnee BREWSTER. 1896. 
One specimen sent from the southern inspectorate of Greenland 
in 1857. (Arct. Man.) A rare summer resident, occurring inland 
on hardwood trees, Nova Scotia. (Downs.) Common summer re- 
sident in King county, N.S. (H. F. Tufts.) Infrequent’y ob- 
served on Prince Edward island, and generally in the upper branches 
of hardwood forest. (Dwight.) A rare summer resident at St. John, 
N.B. (Chamberlain.) <A tolerably common summer resident at 
Scotch Lake, York county, N.B. (W.H. Moore.) Seen near Port 
Hawkesbury, Cape Breton island, and at Fox bay, Anticosti. (Brew- 
ster.) Taken at Beauport; rare in the vicinity of Quebec in sum- 
mer. (Dionne.) A common transient visitant at Montreal. Shot 
a male and two female specimens of this warbler in May, 1890, on 
the spur of Mount Royal. (Wzntle.) 
A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. (Ottawa 
Naturalist, Vol. V.) A specimen of this species was shot on a cur- 
rant bush in a garden at Kingston, Ont., in May, 1899. A number 
observed during migration near Madoc, Ont., on May 4th, 1905. (Rev. 
C. J. Young.) Abundant migrant at Toronto, Ont. A common 
summer resident in the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts; they 
arrive about the middle of May, and for the first two weeks keep 
to the highest trees. (J. H. Fleming.) Not common in Algonquin 
park, Ont. Nearly always seen up in the tops of trees. (Spread- 
borough.) Abundant in spring and fall at Toronto. The earliest 
arrivals I have noted being on 5th May, 1896. (J. Hughes-Samuel.) 
A passing migrant at Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) Of four speci- 
mens taken in the Thames valley, in western Ontario, by Mr. Robert 
Elliott and Mr. W. E. Saunders two are said to be typical of the 
northern form usnee, the other two not being quite typical of the 
southern form. (Robert Elliott, in The Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XVI., 
Pp. 95.) 
BREEDING Notes.—I have no particular data regarding nesting 
season, but a nest was found 4o feet up a yellow birch tree com- 
posed of a few fine rootlets and feathers worked into a growth of 
