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the black replaced by gray and the orange by yellow. The male 
is a persistent songster in the nesting season, and the female also 
sings, though with less spirit and persistency. The singing of the 
female is more noticeable after the nesting duties are concluded 
and when she is leading the juveniles in the beginning of their 
independent career. 
10. Hoodeu Warbler. Wilsonia citrina (Bodd.) 
This handsome warbler is known only by the interested bird 
student, though it is one of the commonest birds of the Bear Moun- 
tain locality and throughout the entire Park. Its prevailing color 
is yellow, with black so arranged on the head and throat as to sug- 
gest a hood, leaving the forehead and cheeks bright yellow. It 
frequents mostly the ravines and sloping gullies, and in such 
favorite spots its plaintive notes can be heard, ending in a char- 
acteristic expression of emotion. The song generally opens with 
several notes -resembling the beginning of the Field Sparrow’s song, 
almost invariably ending with a phrase suggesting to me the utter- 
ance “ see-weety-it ” or “ see-weety-you,” enunciated with consid- 
erable force and spirit. 
On June 3 I found a nest of the Hooded Warbler on the boat 
landing and railroad station grounds of the Inn, in a slialknv open 
ravine with scattered blackberry bushes, near where a male sang 
regularly with nuptial vigor. The nest was made in a small fork 
of blackberry, set against two parallel stems, about thirty inches 
from the ground. It was made outwardly of coarse weed bark and 
strippings, and lined with fine grasses, built rather deep and with 
thick walls. In the nest were four eggs, which later produced a 
brood that was raised successfully. 
11. Yellow-breasted Chat. Icteria virens virens (Linn.) 
The Yellow-breasted Chat is another common bird not well known 
to ordinary observers of bird life. At Bear Mountain it lives in 
the laurel thickets at the base of the mountain. It is the largest 
of the warbler group, with brownish olive upper parts, the distin- 
guishing markings being bright yellow of the throat and breast. 
The face is lined with black and white, and the belly is white. The 
