60.
Concord, Mass.
1913.
Aug. 26 
to 
Nov. 13 
(No 11)

(Dendroica tigrina) in the flower garden when I stood within 12 feet of it
watching it flit actively about among the terminal foliage of low, drooping 
branches 5 or 6 feet above the ground. Here it was quite alone but after 
dashing off hurriedly, with excited chirping, towards our big elm it must 
have soon flown to the lane in front of the barn where, some fifteen 
minutes later, I found it in rather close association with a dozen 
or more other warblers of different & several kinds. Nevertheless it 
continued to keep somewhat apart from them and much lower down, 
chiefly in a small oak where I watched it through my glass for 
several minutes. Like the one seen last year it impressed me as 
a rarely beautiful and attractive little bird singularly graceful of 
shape and movement, with plumage kept in perfect order and 
most exquisitely colored and marked with delicately harmonising 
or pleasingly contrasting tints & shades. It seemed to have little fear 
of me and neither inclination nor aversion to the companionship 
of the other birds in the little mixed flock. Its movements were 
at times quite as animated as those of any of the rest.
About noon of the next following day (21st [September 21, 1913]) I saw what was 
no doubt the same bird bathing energetically in the big hollow-topped 
stone in front of the house in company with a Black Poll 
Warbler [Blackpoll Warbler], a Song Sparrow & 2 Chippies. All five kept at it 
almost ceaselessly for a minute or two. When the Cape May [Cape May Warbler] 
emerged from her bath and flew up into an apple tree she 
looked very unlike the trim little beauty viewed yesterday for 
her plumage was completely soaked and bedraggled. Bu by 
shaking & preening it vigorously she soon returned it to something 
like its normal appearance & then flew off towards the barn.

25. Dendroica aestiva. Noted only once - on September 2 [September 2, 1913] when 
a [female] was observed at the farm, in the oak grove just 
behind the barn, in company with D. virens et pennsylvanica [Dendroica virens et pennsylvanica].