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and proprietor of The Minneapolis Tribune, and residing on 
the Island, so that her opportunities were supreme for the 
observation of many species of the warblers at the full tide of 
their emigration, not a possible moment of which was neg- 
lected. This one in particular she watched for hours at a 
time, glass in hand, sitting in the shade of the magnificent 
maples, elms, and lofty oaks abounding there, and capturing 
alike every note and gesture for her record, which she kindly 
made as my own in our almost daily interviews about the 
teeming birds. Her ear for the characteristic notes of species, 
could never be excelled, and her powers of reproducing them 
by imitation were nota whit behind the other. I had long 
practiced writing them upon the musical staff, that I might to 
a small extent at least, recall them after the singer had gone, 
but when I listened to her, and realized my own deficiencies, I 
abandoned all such attempts at once. Since those days she 
has earned fame as a teacher of ornithology, having before 
been known in its literature as a writer on The Hummingbirds 
of the Americas. Why are there so few ladies of such culture 
interested in the systematic. study of this fascinating science. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Bill dark bluish black, rather lighter beneath; tail dusky. 
top of head light grayish-blue; front, lore, cheek, and a stripe 
under the eye, black, running into a large triangular patch on 
the back, between the wing's, which is also black; eyelids and 
a stripe from the eye along the head, white; upper tail coverts 
black, some of the feather’s tipped with grayish; abdomen and 
lower tail coverts, white; rump and under parts, except as 
described, yellow; lower throat, breast, and sides streaked 
with black, the streaks closer on the lower throat and fore- 
breast; lesser wing coverts and edges of the wing and tail, 
bluish-gray, the former spotted with black; quills and tail 
almost black, the latter with a square patch of white on the 
inner of all the bands across the wings, (sometimes ‘coalesced 
into one) formed by the small coverts and secondaries; part of 
the edge of the inner webs of the quills white; feathers mar- 
gining the black patch on the back behind, and on the sides 
tinged with greenish; second and third quill longest, first 
shorter than fourth; tail rounded, emarginate. 
Length, 5; wing, 2.50; tail, 2.25. 
Habitat, eastern North America to the base of the Rocky 
mountains. 
DENDROICA CHRULEA (WILson). (658. ) 
CERULEAN WARBLER. 
On the 19th of May, 1869, I obtained this warbler amongst 
several others, since which time few seasons of their vernal 
migration have passed without seeing them in rather limited 
numbers. They come with the warbler wave from the 10th to 
