YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER. 
Dendroica dominica BAIRD. 
PLATE XIII. Fic. 1. 
OBSERVED the beautiful YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER frequently in Alabama, 
Georgia, and Florida in the fine days of April, and can fully corroborate what Mr. 
Wm. Brewster says in regard to it. This most distinguished and admirable writer 
published the following account of the bird in the “Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological 
Club” (Vol. II, 1877, pp. 102—106). 
“Although I cannot myself claim an acquaintance of very aay standing with this 
beautiful little species, still for five or six weeks during the past spring scarcely a day 
passed that I did not see one or more individuals. I first met with them at Mellon- 
ville, Florida, where, on March 14, I shot two specimens, both females, in the pine 
woods near the town. They were associated with Pine Warblers, Nuthatches, and 
Woodpeckers. During a trip up the Wekiva River, March 19 to 23 inclusive, I heard at 
frequent intervals a Warbler that I did not recognize, singing in the cypresses, but from 
the impenetrable nature of the swamps, and the great height of the trees, I was unable 
to get even a glimpse of the bird. A week later, while descending the St. John’s River 
by steamer, I again constantly heard, both from the cypress swamps and the open piny 
woods, the notes of this, to me, unknown species, and although I felt almost certain of 
its identity, it was not until I reached St. Mary’s, Georgia, that I proved to my satis- 
faction that my suspicions were correct. There, from the 6th of April to the 4th of 
May, I enjoyed abundant opportunities of studying its habits, for it was everywhere, 
in suitable localities, if not one of the niost abundant, at least a generally distributed 
species. At the time of my arrival the males were in full song and mating. A few in- 
dividuals haunted the moss-hung live-oaks that shaded the village streets, but the open 
piny woods were their favorite abode. There, with the Summer Redbird, the Pine 
Warbler, the Brown-headed Nuthatch, and a variety of Woodpeckers, they frequented 
the beautiful southern pines. Indeed, so great was their attachment to this tree, that, 
with the exception of those heard in the cypress swamps of the upper St. John’s and 
the few that inhabited the oaks in the town, I do not remember to have seen one in 
any other tree. So marked and unvarying was this preference, that on more than one 
occasion I made use of the notes of this bird to guide me out of some bewildering 
thicket, feeling sure that beyond where it was singing I should find the more open pine- 
clad country. Nearly all the authors who have written on the Yellow-throated War- 
bler from personal observation compare his movements along the branches to those of 
the Black and White Creeper. At first I was inclined to the same opinion, but after 
having spent many hours in carefully studying their habits, I became convinced of the 
error of my earlier impressions. Their movements are much slower than those of the 
Mniotilta, and there is less of that crouching, creeping motion. They do, indeed, spend 
