NATURAL HISTORY OF THE SWAINSON'S WARBLER 31 



Figure 13. — Typical canebrake breeding territory occupied by a male 

 Swainson's Warbler near Macon, Ga., May 1965. 



floodplain forest where canebrakes, nearly uninterrupted, covered 

 1-square-mile areas. The cane poles in these stands averaged about 

 15 feet in height and three-fourths of an inch in diameter at 

 ground level. The largest poles reached 30 feet in height and an 

 inch and a half in diameter at base. In the Living Bird, Fifth 

 Annual, (Meanley 1966, p. 155) I published notes on the density 

 of a tract of cane in a male Swainson's Warbler territory (fig. 13) 

 near Macon : 



