THE WESTERN PARULA WARBEER. 



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of the Crystal Spring, so well known to Columbus picnickers, we saw a Parula 

 taking a noonday bath. The bird permitted a close approach during his icy 

 ablutions. After this, upon a couch of tangled vines, he took a sun-bath in 

 leisurely fashion, preening, and shaking himself now and then until he looked 

 like a little blue and yellow pincushion. Then he whisked into a tree-top and 

 was lost in a trice. 



Taken near Su^Jl Lt 



Author. 



VIEW LOOKING WEST ACROSS THE HOCKING RIVER. 



PARULAS NEST IN THESE WOODED HILLS. 



In nesting, the Parula makes artful use of bunches of moss, or even 

 drift material left by a receding freshet. The moss is caught up and woven 

 into a pendulous subspherical mass, or if bulky enough already, the bird may 

 simply pull and pry and excavate a convenient hollow. Again the nest may 

 be entirely constructed of materials laboriously gathered. K writer in Penn- 

 sylvania, Mrs. T. D. Dershimer, reports two such nests in hemlock trees. 



