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73. Dendroica blackburniae. Blackburnian Warbler. — In Jackson 

 and Macon Counties this Warbler was abundant everywhere above 3000 

 feet, but I heard only one in Yancy County,— on the side of the Black 

 Mountains at 3300 feet. On the crest of the Covpee Range, and about 

 Highlands, they were among the commonest and most conspicuous 

 woodland birds, frequenting old oak timber interspersed with hemlocks 

 or bordering hemlock swamps. In these evergreens they were evidently 

 breeding, or about to breed, for the males were in full song and paired, 

 and I noticed that each had its particular hemlock which it guarded with 

 jealous care, driving away all other small birds that came into or near it. 

 The song here was peculiar, but still not sufficiently so as to be unrecogniz- 

 able. Several males which I shot near Highlands differ from northern 

 specimens in having the orange of the throat duller and paler. 



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One in 'Vest Townsend, a male feeding young just from 

 ; the nest. Gnerally distributed in the country about Ashby, but 

 found chierly in spruce and hemlock v/oods on lo^/ ground. Very a- 

 bundant on the sides of 'It. •'^atatic in heavy spruce forest. The 

 males xn full sorag during our stay. The song of this species has 

 I at least three regular variations. It approaches at times the 



song 'of the Black and '^-fhite creeper and at others of the Blue Yel- 

 low Baci Warbler. 



