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sey, and one (No. 103) from a Clarence 

 McKinnon at Pempton Lakes, N. J., on 

 June 2, 1909, with the information that 

 the bird had been liilled by flying 

 against a building near Furnace Pond. 

 Should the other three be found, I 

 should be pleased to have the bands 

 returned to me at Bloomfield, N. J. 

 These personal bands were used prior 

 to the time that I knew of the Ameri- 

 can Bird Banding Association. There 

 are also Bands 90, 91, 92 and 94 on 

 a family of Planesticus migrateria, 

 placed on June 5th, 1904 at South 

 Mountain Reservation, Essex County, 

 N. J., and Nos. 97, 98 and 99 on a fam- 

 ily of Sialia sialis placed on a breed 

 on April 18th at Haskell, N. J., during 

 the spring of 1904 to be heard from. 

 Of this latter lot Band No. 98 was re- 

 turned to me from a Harry Rador of 

 East Radford, Va., on January 18, 1910, 

 with the information that the dead 

 bird was found near this town in an 

 open field. Should observers locate 

 any of these bands I would be pleased 

 to have them communicate with me 

 and return the bands for inspection. 



As a further note on bands, I have in 

 my possession a band found on the 

 dead body of a male Corvus brachy- 

 Thynches at Peyuannock, N. J., with the 

 following inscription thereon, on Febr- 

 Tiary 22, 1913: "O. L. T. St. Catherines, 

 Ont, No. 49872. 6-08." I have written 

 to this address, but my letters have 

 l)een returned as unclaimed. 



Louis S. Kohler. 

 Bloomfield, N. J. 



The Hooded Warbler. 



(Wilsonia citrina) 

 While rambling during the months 

 •of June and July over the heavily 

 wooded hills of northern New Jersey 

 near the southern extremity of Green- 

 wood Lake, within whose precincts the 

 noise and bustle of modern industry 

 liave not as yet invaded and the hand 



of mankind has made but little, if any, 

 impression, I have encountered, an- 

 nually, this beautifully adorned and 

 sweet-voiced sylvan warbler many 

 times during those months since the 

 late nineties. 



Wherever the woodlands are moist 

 and the cover low this bird is a reg- 

 ular inhabitant. They appear in this 

 vicinity about May 15th, which is 

 rather later than have been recorded 

 in sections where they are purely tran- 

 sient. Immediately after their arrival 

 their song, which is very sweet, var- 

 ied and easily recognized, becomes a 

 common melody to the ears of the ob- 

 server in this section. To me this 

 song ranks with the best and sweet- 

 est of the wood warblers and may be 

 syllablized as "che-we, che-we, che-we, 

 chick-se-de." 



Since my first discovery of the nest- 

 ing of this bird in this section, seven 

 other nests have been located within 

 a radius of four miles and in each case 

 have been located in the low shrub- 

 bery, preferably the swamp-huckleber- 

 ry, about three feet from the ground, 

 very compactly constructed and com- 

 posed of bark and plant fibres and lin- 

 ed with fine grasses, horsehair aad 

 plant down. The eggs, in each case, 

 numbered four and were creamy-white 

 well blotched with deep chestnut- 

 brown and pearly-graj^ especially at 

 the larger end, with occasional traces 

 of pale lavender appearing about the 

 whole surface of the shell. Of the 

 eight sets examined, the extremes 

 measured .78 x .56 and .65 x .50, the 

 average being about .7' x .53. All of 

 these nests were found between May 

 28th and June 10th. 



After the incubation and feeding of 

 the nestlings, the parents rove about 

 with their more or less increased fam- 

 ilies until the end of July, when the 

 whole tribe strangely drop from sight. 

 Never in all my experience has a bird 



