BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER 



159 



Fall Migration- 



PI,ACB 



North River, P. E. I 



St. John, N. B 



Southern Maine 



Fitchburg, Mass 



Portland, Conn 



Renovo, Pa 



Southeastern New York . 



Germantown, Fa 



Washington, D. C 



Raleigh, N. C 



Ottawa, Ont 



Chicago, 111 



Eubank, Ky 



New Orleans, La. (near) 



No. of 

 years* 



Average date of 

 last one seen 



September S 

 September 13 

 September 27 



October 4 

 October 7 

 October 8 



October 8 

 September 27 

 September 27 



Latest date of 

 last one seen 



September 13, 1890 

 September 25, 1891 

 October 2, 1898 

 October 9, i8g8 

 October 20, 1888 

 October 15, 1887 

 October 12, 1899 

 October 18, 1888 

 October 20, 1890 

 October 16, 1893 

 October 8, 1887 

 October 12, 1894 

 October 14, 1891 

 October 28, 1899 



The Bird and its Haunts. — Singing freely while he travels, one 

 need not follow the Black-throated Green to his northern home to hear 

 the delicious, little lazy drawl which, near New York, marks the open- 

 ing days of Warbler time. Now we may find him almost anywhere 

 there are trees, but, arrived on his nesting groujid, he shows a marked 

 preference for conifers. 



About Cambridge, Mass., where the Black-throated Green is 

 among the most abundant summer Warblers, Brewster^ writes that 

 its favorite haunts "are extensive, well-matured woods of white pines, 

 and rocky pastures growing up to pitch pines or to Virginia junipers." 



About Monadnock, Gerald Thayer writes, the Black-throated 

 Green is "a very common or abundant summer bird through all the 

 region, high and low; ranging from the piAe woods of the lowest 

 valleys to the half open copses of spruce and mountain ash along 

 Monadnock's rocky ridge, — 2,500 to 3,169 feet". High upon the moun- 

 tain, however, it is less common than the Myrtle, or even the Nash- 

 ville. Though decidedly a forest Warbler, i\ favors second growth, 

 and pasture-bordering copses, rather than the* very heavy timber, and 

 is particularly partial to dry white pine woods. Its 'beat' lies between 

 the sunlit tops of middle-sized pines, spruce a^tid other trees, and their 

 bottom branches on the outer borders of the groves. The deeply 

 shaded wood-interiors it seems rather to avoid; and it is a great 

 haunter, especially while singing, of the spindling tops of fair-sized 

 conifers. Active, restless, but very tame, it fs. a noticeable little bird 

 wherever it occurs, particularly in the clearly-marked costume of the 

 adult male, whose almost fleckless yellow cheeks often lead chance 

 observers to describe it as yellow-headed." (^Thayer, MS.) 



