592 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA. 



CCXXVII. COMPSOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 1850. 

 648. Northern Parula Warbler. 



Compsothlypis americana usnecB 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) Infrequently 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 Co., N.B. {W. H. Moore) 

 Seen near Port Hawkesbury, Cape Breton Island, and at Fox 

 Bay, Anticosti. [Brewster) Taken at Beauport; rare -in the 

 vicinity of Quebec in summer. (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 currant bush in a garden at Kingston, Ont., in May, 1899. 

 {Rev. C. J. Young) A common summer resident in the Parry 

 Sound and Muskoka districts. They arrive ajpout 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. {Spreadborough) Abundant 

 in spring and fall at Toronto. The earliest arrivals I have noted 

 being on 5th May, 1896. {J. Hughes-Samuel) A passing migrant 

 at Guelph, Ont. {A. B. Klugh) Of four specimens 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 usned, 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 

 Usnea that hung below a limb three-quarters of an inch in 

 diameter and about eight inches below the limb. {W. H. 

 Moore) 



