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tHE OOLOQISt 



ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS 

 OF BROOKE COUNTY, W. VA. 



By George Sutton 



Part III 



106. Golden Winged Warbler 



Fairly commo summer resident. 

 This species has a very distinctive 

 song. 



107. Brewster's Warbler 



I secured one good specimen on 

 April 30, 1917. The specimen sang 

 the song of the golden winged species 

 and was the counterpart of that species 

 in nearly every characteristic. 



108. Tennessee Warbler 



Abundant in migration. All day on 

 Sept. 7, 1917, this species was evces- 

 sively abundant, wherever I went. 



109. Cape May Warbler 



Rather abundant in the spring mi- 

 gration of 1916, and the fall migration 

 of 1917. An unusually late individual 

 was brought to me on Dec. 7, which 

 I had in captivity for some days. The 

 song of this species has puzzled me 

 considerably. I feel sure that a cer- 

 tain bright pretty song I heard in May, 

 1918, was from an adult male of this 

 species, though the song is common- 

 ly spoken of as a monotonous lisping. 



110. Yellow Warbler 

 Abundant summer resident. 



111. Black Throated Blue Warbler 

 Common migrant. May nest, though 



I have no records. 



112. Myrtle Warbler 



Common spring migrant. Apparent- 

 ly not so common in the fall. 



113. Magnolia Warbler 

 Abundant migrant. 



114. Cerulean Warbler 



This is one of the characteristic 

 breeding birds of the region. The nest 

 is placed near the end of a long limb. 

 The birds are very careful not to dis- 

 close the location of the nest, and to- 

 gether with the fact that the female 



is a very quiet bird the nest is very 

 difficult to find. The son^ of the male 

 may be represented by the syllables 

 "cheery-cheery-cheery-chee," hardly as 

 plain as that and yet strongly sugges- 

 tive of those syllables. He sings usually 

 among the high branches, and while 

 singing remains at his post for some 

 minutes. Then without warning he 

 will leave this post and after an In- 

 terval begin his song in some disant 

 tree. Several males that I have ob- 

 served seemed to have about four 

 chosen trees in which they sang. One 

 male I watched closely for a day in 

 May remained absolutely quiet dur- 

 ing one of his singing spells, save that 

 he faced about once. Only twice in 

 the woods have I seen the full back 

 of the Cerulean Warbler. Once was 

 when a male snapped up a low flying 

 insect — only to dart back up to the 

 top of a locust, and again I saw clear- 

 ly two males chasing each other, while 

 I was collecting a set of tanager's in 

 a high maple. An adult female which 

 I shot on June 1st, 1915, was incubat- 

 ing, for her belly was bare of feathers. 



115. Chestnut Sided Warbler 



Taken twice in spring migration; 

 both adult males. I also secured an 

 immature bird, with plain white under- 

 parts and yellow green upper parts 

 on Sept. 6, 1915. 



116. Bay Breasted Warbler 



The immatures of this species are 

 surely the most common warblers of 

 the fall migration. They are deliber- 

 ate and graceful in movement, and for 

 the most part very tame. They are 

 rarer in spring migration. 



117. Black Poll Warbler 



Common spring migrant; abundant 

 in fall. The immatures of this species 

 and the former are about equally 

 abundant and very hard to distinguish. 



118. Blackburnian Warbler 

 Abundant migrant. I should call 



the song rather wheezy though ap- 



