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CCLII. COMPSOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 1850. 

 648a. Northern Parula Warbler. 



Compsothlypis americana usnea Brewster. 1896. 



One specimen sent from the southern inspectorate of Greenland 

 in 1857. {Arct. Man.) A rare summer resident, occurring inland 

 on hardwood trees, Nova Scotia. {Downs.) Common summer re- 

 sident in King county, N.S. {H. F. Tufts.) Infrequent'y ob- 

 served on Prince Edward island, and generally in the upper branches 

 of hardwood forest. (Dwight.) A rare summer resident at St. John, 

 N.B. (Chamberlain.) A tolerably common summer resident at 

 Scotch Lake, York county, N.B. (W. H. Moore.) Seen near Port 

 Hawkesbury, Cape Breton island, and at Fox bay, Anticosti. (Brew- 

 ster.) Taken at Beauport; rare in the vicinity of Quebec in sum- 

 mer. (Dionne.) A common transient visitant at Montreal. Shot 

 a male and two female specimens of this warbler in May, 1890, on 

 the spur of Mount Royal. (Wintle.) 



A moderately common migrant in the vicinity of Ottawa. (Ottawa 

 Naturalist, Vol. V.) A specimen of this species was shot on a cur- 

 rant bush in a garden at Kingston, Ont., in May, 1899. A number 

 observed during migration near Madoc, Ont., on May 4th, 1905. (Rev. 

 C. J. Young.) Abundant migrant at Toronto, Ont. A common 

 summer resident in the Parry Sound and Muskoka districts; they 

 arrive about the middle of May, and for the first two weeks keep 

 to the highest trees. (/. H. Fleming.) Not common in Algonquin 

 park, Ont. Nearly always seen up in the tops of trees. (Spread- 

 borough.) Abundant in spring and fall at Toronto. The earliest 

 arrivals I have noted being on 5th May, 1 896. (/. Hughes-Samuel.) 

 A passing migrant at Guelph, Ont. (A. B. Klugh.) Of four speci- 

 mens taken in the Thames valley, in western Ontario, by Mr. Robert 

 Elliott and Mr. W. E. Saunders two are said to be typical of the 

 northern form usnern, the other two not being quite typical of the 

 southern form. (Robert Elliott, in The Ottawa Naturalist, Vol. XVI., 

 P- 95-) 



Breeding Notes. — I have no particular data regarding nesting 

 season, but a nest was found 40 feet up a yellow birch tree com- 

 posed of a few fine rootlets and feathers worked into a growth of 



