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tide, on the 10th, 11th, or 12th of May, in considerable num- 
bers, and should be looked for, neither in the lowest, nor the 
topmost branches of the trees through which he industriously 
feeds and flits, but between them. His bright, boldly con- 
trasted colors make him comparatively easy to identify even 
when on the wing, but he manifests no disposition to extend 
any special confidence to the good homo who may be earnestly 
looking for him, even for the brief period of mutual recogni- 
tion. For many years after I came to know of the annual 
presence of this bird in migration, I believed they all passed 
much further to the north to breed, for the reason that their 
stay seemed so very short, but it has been seen too many 
times since, in the deep, dense woods, in different localities 
during summer, for doubt of its breeding in many places in the 
forest portions of theState. It is almost universally distribu- 
ted in its migrations, and presumably during the summer, but 
returns southward early in September, when less frequently, 
it is seen amongst other species of its family. 
They maintain a very pleasant warble while feeding, often 
changing places in their search for ‘‘the food prepared for 
them,” flitting spiritedly through the thicket, or amongst the 
branches of the forest trees, when glimpses of their unique 
plumage, like the twilight flashing of the fire-flies in the 
shadows of the woodlands arrest the eye. They did not 
pass us without interesting many eyes and ears, the most 
enthusiastic, and devoted of which were those of my co-orni- 
thologist, so favorably located as she was while visiting her 
friends on that marvellously beauiful, metropolitan island of 
our city. Nota note of the resolute song escaped her keen 
ear, nor a flexion of its beautiful body her eye, but each was 
seized and treasured to be coined into ‘‘apples of gold and 
pictures of silver” for the instruction and delight of her friends 
who were thus transformed into grateful pupils who could 
never forget her or her instructions. Long and familiarly as 
I had known the bird,-I knew more from listning to her 
thrilling and enthusiastic descriptions. It was born in her, and 
never acquired. 
Note. I have found the nest and eggs of this warbler on 
that very island since the foregoing was written. It was in the 
fork of a sapling growing in the side of the elevated bank, very 
near the waters of the Mississippi, near which hundreds of 
people passed daily. I have been told of the nests of this 
species having been found in several localities in the Big 
Woods, but have had no opportunity to very reliably assure 
