Birds Observed at Cooaada, Alabama 

 N.O.Brown 



23. Protonotaria citrea, (Bodd.) Bd. Prothonotary Warbler. — 

 Arrived April 12, in full song. After April 20, specimens were seen 

 almost every day, but they never became common. Their haunts were 

 exclusively swamps and the dense hard-wood growths of the water-courses. 

 I found them always active, restless, and noisy. The song is stridulous 

 and piercing, and suggests that of the Black-and-white Creeper, but is 

 more detached and much more strongly accented ; it is indicated very 

 well by the syllables, eh-wiss', eh-tmss', eh-wisa', eh-wiss', eh-wiss', eh-wiss', 

 eh-wiss'. A female dissected April 23 contained eggs almost ready for 

 deposition ; no neSts, however, were found. 



BmlLN.O.O. 3,Oct.,l878. P.172 



I02. Protonotaria citrea. Prothonotary^Warbler.— The first indi- 

 vidual of this species was seen and captured on April 6, in a willow tree 

 near a pond in the creek bottom, but they did not appear in force until 

 the I2th, on which day I shot five, and saw at least twenty more. They 

 continued to be common in suitable places up to the time of my depart- 

 ure, and a great many pairs were undoubtedly breeding. I found two 

 nests just completed, one on the i6th and the other on the 25th, neither 

 of which contained eggs. They were placed in old Woodpecker holes, in 

 hollow snags about fifteen feet from the ground. Although a number of 

 the birds were seen in the swamp, the most of them were found about the 

 willow trees along Alexander's Creek, a locality, however, only about one 

 half of a mile from the swamp. They were usually quite tame and unsus- 

 picious. Five or six of the twenty-five specimens taken had the feathers 

 of the forehead stained and gummed up with some sticky, resinous sub- 

 stance that could not be washed off. 



Auk^ 4, Oct, 1887, 30^' 



