20 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



description of them, I have searched for a great many hours 

 and have attained only the measure of success implied in find- 

 ing an empty nest, believed to belong to this species. The bird 

 frequents clearings grown up with small white birches, and also 

 wet, boggy places where the ground is strewn with logs and 

 stumps, and covered with sphagnum. It is suspected that the 

 nests are hidden in both types of localities, in the moss or under 

 some concealing object. 



The Parula Warbler is frequently heard singing one or other 

 of its two buzzing songs, among the spruces. For some years 

 there was much question as to where the nest might be placed, 

 for there is but little hanging moss (Usnea) in the district, and 

 this seldom grows long enough to accommodate a nest. The 

 question was settled by Geo. H. Stuart, 3rd, who discovered a 

 nest frailly made of dry grass stems, among the twigs pendant 

 below the bough of a thick spruce. The tree stood in an open 

 location, only a few yards from a wagon road where people 

 and automobiles passed frequently. 



The Yellow Warbler is found rather sparingly in the culti- 

 vated sections, seldom, if ever venturing into the thick woods. 



In or near the dense rhododendron thickets, and less fre- 

 quently in general woodland, one may hear the song of the 

 Black-throated Blue Warbler, — a series of three or four buzzing 

 "z-e-e-e-s." The nest is usually placed in a crotch of a rhodo- 

 dendron within a few feet of the ground, so hidden that it is 

 not visible until the thick, green leaves are parted. 



The Magnolia Warbler is probably the most numerous of its 

 genus in the well-grown woods. The song is in two quite dif- 

 ferent forms, but in the same voice. A peculiar call-note is in 

 two syllables, like "skee-zick." I know of no call made by 

 any other warbler which at all resembles it. The nest is usu- 

 ally placed on horizontal boughs of a spruce, a few feet from 

 the ground . 



The Chestnut-sided Warbler is numerous in the tracts of 

 scrubby oaks and second growth of other kinds. Both of its 

 two standard songs axe strikingly similar to those of the 

 Yellow Warbler. The authorized versions are not always 

 followed. The nest is a neatly-made cup, placed in the crotch 

 of bush or sapling near the ground. 



