i8 BEACH GRASS 



tic call notes are to be heard on every hand. 

 Their plumage at this time is entirely unlike that 

 of the spring. A redstart, a Maryland yellow- 

 throat, a Nashville and a parula warbler were of 

 this company, and magnolia warblers, spreading 

 their tails and showing the white median bands, 

 were common. In a dark thicket, a splendid 

 male black-throated blue warbler revealed him- 

 self to me by the white spots on his wings. Pres- 

 ently he hopped into the light where I could ad- 

 mire his trig figure, black throat and blue back. 

 The commoner black-throated green warbler in 

 winter plumage with his black throat entirely 

 concealed by white feather tips was represented 

 by several individuals. 



I have left to the end three rarer species of 

 warblers, any one of which is worth a long trip 

 to see. One of these, the Tennessee warbler, is, 

 in the adult stage, one of the most obscurely 

 marked of all warblers, a plain gray and white 

 bird, but the two individuals in this favored 

 grove were young of the year, and so yellow that 

 an observer, unfamiliar with this phase, would 

 be sorely puzzled. The first time I saw this ju- 



