WARBLEHS 293 



WESTERN PARULA WARBLER: Compsothlypis 

 americana ramcUinae Ridgway.f 



State records. — The western race of the parula warbler 

 occurs in the State, so far as known, only in the extreme south- 

 western part. It breeds in the vicinity of Mobile, as shown 

 by a typieal specimen taken at Spring Hill, May 11, 1911. 

 Several singing males were noted on that date. 



CAPE MAY WARBLER: Dendroica tigrina (Gmelin). 



State records. — The Cape May warbler occurs irregularly 

 in Alabama as a migrant, where it has been recorded by two 

 local observers. Miss Carrie E. Parkhurst noted the species 

 at Talladega, May 4, 1906, May 3, 1909, and May 1, 1910; and 

 R. H. Dean reports it from Anniston, April 16 to May 7, 1916, 

 during which period it Avas the most numerous of the war- 

 blers, seen on brushy hillsides and about ravines. 



General habits. — Butler, writing of the bird in Indiana, 

 says: 



Some years with us they are found upon the drier uplands, 

 among the oak woods, where they usually keep among the 

 lower branches or upon the high bushes and smaller trees. 

 They are not very active, but keep persistently hunting insects. 

 At other times, we find them among our orchards, even coming 

 into towns, where they occupy themselves catching insects 

 among the foliage and about the blossoms of all kinds of shade 

 and fruit trees.J 



Chapman states that in early May in Florida he has seen 

 the species "actually common, feeding in weedy patches among 

 a rank growth of pokeberries."** 



The bird's song is described as being of "a thin and pene- 

 trating tone, much like the black and white warbler's."*t 



YELLOW WARBLER: Dendroica aestiva aestiva (Gmelin). 



State records. — The yellow warbler occurs in migration and 

 breeds rarely in the northern part of the State. Dr. Avery 

 records it as an uncommon spring and autumn migrant at 



tBeacribed in Bull. 60. U. S. Nat. Mus., Part 2, p. 486, 1902. 

 tButler A. W., Birda of Indiana, p. 1044, 1898. 

 "Chapman, F. M., Warblers of North Amer., p. 130, 1907. 

 •fThayer, G. H.. in Chapman, op. cit., p. 132. 



