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28. Blackburnian Warbler. A [male] in elms close to our farm house on May 2 [May 2, 1916]
and another there on the 6th [May 6, 1916], were perhaps north-bound migrants. On May 7 [May 7, 1916]
and thereafter up to June 5 [June 5, 1916] a [male] was always to be heard whenever I visited
Pulpit Rock and singing in the pines there. On and after June 7 [June 7, 1916] they harbored
two males whose regular singing stations were scarce one hundred yards apart. No
doubt they had mates and nests in these old white pine woods where they have
bred every season for many years past. I failed to note any other birds of
their kind this spring, either during migration time or later.

29. Black-throated Green Warbler. Arrived May 2 [May 2, 1916]. Apparently no more
numerously represented at any time during the next two weeks than later in the
season after all north-bound migrant warblers had passed. On May 28 [May 28, 1916] I heard
5 males singing along half a mile of the Bigelow Road. There were 3 (the usual
number) in Pulpit Rock woods and another in Cedar Park, through June. Near
the river I noted fewer than usual - one at Holden's Hill and another at
Ball's Hill on June 15 [June 15, 1916], one at Pine Ridge (where there should have been four
or five) on the 29th [June 29, 1916]. One or another of the birds breeding in woodland near the
farm occasionally visited the elms overspreading our door yard - as has ever been
their habit in May and June.

30. Pine Warbler. First noted on April 18 [April 18, 1916]. A male sang all day long in our
blossoming apple orchard on the 20th [April 20, 1916] and I saw another in an isolated apple tree
at the Ritchie place on June 6 [June 6, 1916]. During the entire breeding season the species was
represented locally by the usual number of birds, occupying their accustomed
ancestral haunts. Near the farm we had a pair in the pitch or red pine
grove on south side of Run and another in Pulpit Rock woods - where two males
were heard on June 28 [June 28, 1916]. On the 29th [June 29, 1916] I heard two at Davis Hill.
There must have been one at Ball's Hill also and probably another on Pine Ridge
but the species was not actually noted in either of those locations. The males
sang ceaselessly through May and June but most freely early in the former and later in
the latter month.