Birds of Dead River Region, Me. F. K. O. 



19. Parula americana, (Blue Yellow-backed 

 Warbler). This species was commonly observed 

 , in both spring and summer, being more conspicu- 



ous from their habit of keeping in small flocks, 

 even in the breeding season. In a small spruce 

 grove, which contained many old moss covered 

 trees, on Kennedy Smith's farm in Eustis, I found 

 several nests of this Warbler. Thoy were the 

 usual structures, of vs7iea so well known where- 

 ever this species breeds, being on the whole more 

 round than those observed in Massachusetts and 

 more compact in structure. The nests were in 

 every instance built entirely by the birds, and 

 pendant from some branch entirely destitute of 

 other moss. Such is not always the case in 

 southern New England, the birds taking posses- 

 sion of some natural branch of the hanging moss, 

 which, with but a little effort, they transform into 

 an apology for a nest, scarcely worthy of the 

 name when compared with tliose from the Maine 

 tbrests. 



O.&O. XI. Sep. 1886. p. 129 



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