WARBLERS 291 



TENNESSEE WARBLER : Vermivora peregrina (Wilson) . 



State records. — The Tennessee warbler occurs regularly in 

 moderate numbers as a migrant in spring and fall. McCor- 

 mack records it as a fall migrant at Leighton, occurring in 

 limited numbers in September. Specimens were taken by him 

 September 17 and 23, 1889, and September 25, 1890. Avery 

 collected only two specimens at Greensboro — October 4, 1890, 

 and October 18, 1393. Golsan took one at Autaugaville, Octo- 

 ber 17, 1915, and Saunders mentions seeing one at Woodbine, 

 May 9, 1908.* Holt collected a single specimen at York, 

 April 30, 1912, and at our camp on Sipsey Fork, near Mell- 

 ville, the bird was noted by Peters and myself on May 1, 2, and 

 3, 1914, singing frequently high up in the tall trees. 



General habits. — During its migrations this little warbler 

 remains well concealed in the thicker parts of the tall trees, 

 and but for its striking song would easily be overlooked. It is 

 an active bird and sings with great frequency a rather loud, 

 harsh, unmusical, sputtering song, which seems to stick a little 

 in its throat. Mrs. Farwell describes it as "a very loud song, 

 beginning with a sawing two-noted trill, rather harsh and very 

 staccato, but hesitating in character, increasing to a rapid 

 trill, almost exactly like a chipping sparrow's."! 



PARULA WARBLER : Compsothlypis americana 

 americana (Linnaeus). 



State records. — The parula warbler is a common summer 

 resident over the greater part of the State, but is rare and 

 local in the northern counties. It breeds rather commonly at 

 Castleberry, Abbeville, and Dothan; less commonly at Squaw 

 Shoals, Woodbine, Autaugaville, Barachias, Tuscaloosa, Gun- 

 tersville. Sand Mountain (near Carpenter), and Erin. It 

 probably breeds at Leighton, having been seen there on July 

 15. Breeding specimens have been examined from Elkmont, 

 Guntersville, Ardell, Natural Bridge, Hayneville, Seale, Cas- 

 tleberry, and Gravine Island, Mobile Bay, and a migrant in- 

 dividual from Scottsboro (September 2, 1908). 



•SauWers, A. A., The Auk, vol. 26, p. 421, 1908. 



tFarwell, Mrs. J. V., in Chapman, Warblers of North Amer., pp. 85-86, 1907. 



