[ Ph otographic rep rin t . ] 



BULLETIN 



OF THti 



NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



Vol. II. JANUARY, 1877. No. i. 



THE BLACK-AND-YELLOW WARBLER {DENDR(ECA 

 MACULOSA). 



BY WILLIAM BREWSTER. 



First impressions are apt to be most lasting, and in many cases 

 are engraved upon the memory with a vividness that defies the 

 effacing influence of •time, Thus the Blftck-and-Yellow Warbler 

 was one of my earliest bird acquaintances, and I shall not soon for- 

 get our introduction. 



My Axmily was spending a few days in a quiet little country town 

 in Now Hampshire, when, one hot summer afternoon, finding time 

 hang heavily on my hands, I borrowed an old gun, and at the coun- 

 try store, where everything was sold from a patent coffee-mill to 

 the latest specific for rheumatism, 1 purchased a supply of am- 

 munition, and, thus equipped, took to the woods and searched a 

 long time in vain for game. At length, entering a grove of thickly 

 growing young spruces, I sat down to rest on a mossy log. I had 

 been there but a short time when I became conscious of faint 

 sounds in the trees above and around me, — chirpings, twitterings, 

 and occasionally a modest little effort at song. W^atching atten- 

 tively, I soon spied a movement among the branches, and a tiny 

 bird hopped out into the light, presenting a bright yellow breast 

 and throat for just a moment before flying into the next tree, 

 Here was a revelation I I already knew a few. of the most familiar 

 birds, — the Robin, the Bluebird, the Sparrow, the Oriole, and some 

 others j but it had never occurred to me that dark forests like 

 these might be tenanted by such delicate and beautiful forms. 



