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States very quickly on its way northward; but I have seen 
it from the nineteenth to the thirtieth of May, though never 
in abundance. It keeps low down in the trees, and is fond | 
of haunting thickets and open brush-fields. Its ordinary | 
note is a sharp chirp, but occasionally it may be heard to 
utter a loud, rapid, chattering song, which it repeats at short 
intervals. It is dintinmiichad by its activity, even ane 
class of birds preéminent for that quality. 
The Canada Warbler (Myiodtoctes Canadensis) belas 
classed as a flycatcher. It arrives about the middle of May 
along with the greater mass of warblers, and remains till the 
first of June. It is very unsuspicious, and more familiar in 
its habits than most of the warblers. With me, during some 
seasons, it is exceedingly abundant; at others it is scare 
though never rare. It affects the lower branches principally, 
and is always very active. Its song is one of the mos 
agreeable which we hear, though anio tunately it is s 
heard in this part of the country. E 
The Blue Warbler (D. cærulea), is a very rare species; 
that is to say, in the New England and Northern 
States, its natural home being the south and the south- 
where it is extremely abundant: It very rarely reac 
New England States, though in the southern parts of 
sylvania and New Jersey it sometimes occurs in consid 
numbers. Ina “Catalogue of birds observed in New 
Long and Staten Islands, and the adjacent parts. je 
Jersey,” by Geo. N. Lawrence, no mention of it is 1 
although the list is very full and complete, embracing " 
CREPE not before known to occur in those lool 
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indeed, I at first slate it. It had no note of any Ki 
The Maryland Yellow-throat ( Geothlypis ne 
to the Geothlypee, or Ground Warblers, so named 
