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quaintance of very long standing with this beautiful little species, 
still for five or six weeks during the past spring scarcely a day 
passed that I did not see one or more individuals. I first met with 
them at Mellonville, Florida, where, on March 14, I shot two speci- 
mens, both females, in the pine woods near the town. They were 
associated with Pine Warblers, Nuthatches, and Woodpeckers. 
During a trip up the Wekiva River, March 19 to 23 inclusive, I 
heard at frequent intervals a Warbler that I did not recognize sing- 
ing in the cypresses, but from the impenetrable nature of the 
swamps, and the great height of the trees, I was unable to get even 
a glimpse of the bird. A week later, while descending the St. 
John’s River by steamer, I again constantly heard, both from the 
cypress swamps and the open piny woods, the notes of this, to me, 
unknown species, and although I felt almost certain of its identity, 
it was not until I reached St. Mary’s, Georgia, that I proved to my 
satisfaction that my suspicions were correct. There, from the 6th 
of x4.pril to the 4th of May, I enjoyed abundant opportunities of 
studying its habits, for it was everywhere, in suitable localities, 
if not one of the most abundant, at least a generally distributed 
species. At the time of my arrival the males were in full song and 
mating. A few individuals haunted the moss-hung live-oaks that 
shaded the village streets, but the open piny woods were their fa- 
vorite abode. There, with the Summer Redbird [Pyranga oestiva), 
the Pine Warbler {Bendroeca pinus), the Brown-headed Nuthatch 
{Sitta pnsilla), and a variety of Woodpeckers, they frequented the 
beautiful Southern pines. Indeed, so great was their attachment 
to this tree that, with the exception of those heard in the cypress 
swamps of the Upper St. John’s, and the few that inhabited the 
oaks in the town, I do not remember to have seen one in any other 
tree. So marked and unvarying was this preference, that on more 
than one occasion I made use of the notes of this bird to guide me 
out of some bewildering thicket, feeling sure that beyond where it 
was singing I should find the more open pine-clad country. 
Nearly all the authors who have written on the Yellow-throated 
Warbler from personal observation compare his movements along 
the branches to those of the Black-and-white Cree-per (Mniotilta varia). 
At first I was inclined to the same opinion, but after my eagerness 
to secure specimens had somewhat abated, through success in col- 
lecting them, I felt more at leisure to watch the pretty little birds 
before taking their innocent lives, and, having spent many hours in 
