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No. 203. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 11, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 204. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 11, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 205. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 11, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 562. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 11, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 729. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 4, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 898. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 21, 1891. W. C. Avery. 



167. VERMIVORA PEREGRINA (Wilson). 

 TENNESSEE WARBLER. 



"Only one specimen, and that my first, has been taken 

 near Millwood in the Warrior River bottom, on October 

 4 last/' (1891b). 



No. 728. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 4, 1890. W. C. Avery. 

 No. 1092. Female. Greensboro. Oct. 18, 1893. W. C. Avery. 



168. COMPSOTHLYPIS AMERICANA AMERICANA 



(Linnaeus) . 

 PARULA WARBLER. 



"Common during spring and autumn migrations. A 

 few remain all the summer and breed perhaps, though I 

 have no other evidence of this than that the Parula 

 warbler is a summer resident of Hale County." (1891b). 



A couple of years after the publication of the fore- 

 going the Doctor secured all the evidence that he wanted, 

 as testified by the following extended notes taken from 

 his journal for 1893: 



"April 9th. Today while making observations on the 

 nest of the yellow-throated warbler found on the 4th, a 

 little bird was seen gathering material from a stump 

 near the water-oak, the nesting site of D. dominica No. 

 2. 



"The field glass revealed a female parula warbler. 

 She flew about seventy yards and perched for a moment 

 in a black gum; a second flight took her to the top of a 

 sweet gum ; she descended immediately to a pendent 

 bunch of Tillandsia, disappeared in the moss, made two 

 or three flights from the tree, always returning to the 

 same place on the tree and entering the same bunch of 

 moss. There could be no doubt as to what she was doing, 

 and I had my first ocular demonstration of the fact that 

 the parula warbler breeds in Hale County, Alabama, 

 though its occurrence here in mid-summer had seemed 

 to me sufficient evidence that it nests in this county. 



