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The New York State College of Forestry 
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 
Notes on Park Birds in 1919. In addition to the foregoing 
records for the summer season of 1918, the following notes are 
given as a result of observations made by the writer beginning 
June 6 and ending July 31, 1919. The observations in 1919 
were made from the same two centers as those mentioned in the 
1918 records, the Bear Mountain region and the Guest House 
near the Kanaliwauke Lakes. The season of 1919 differed some- 
what from that of 1918 in that it was much drier during the 
spring months. This may be partly accounted for by the abnor- 
mally light snowfall in the preceding winter. Conditions otherwise 
were similar in these two seasons. Further detailed observations 
during 1919 gave several additional records worthy of mention; 
hence these supplementary notes. 
1. Canadian Warbler. Wilsonia canadensis (Linn.) 
On July 3, 1919, the handsome Canadian Warbler was met with 
for the first time in my Park observations, along the dark hemlock 
swamp woods by the site of Dam No. 9, near the Harriman estate. 
A male was singing a song new to my Palisades repertoire of bird 
music, with an effect like “ chip, chippery, chippery, chippery, 
ehee-teh-chee.” Presently a male and a female were both chirping 
anxiously near me, and the former came quite close, so that I could 
distinguish his bluish gray upper parts, clear yellow throat, the 
markings across the breast with the black “ necklace ” effect, the 
yellow under parts, and the black cheek mark. Apparently several 
males were singing along the trail at that place, and I have no 
hesitation in recording the Canadian Warbler as one of the nesting 
birds of the Harriman section of the Park. 
2. Yellow-breasted Chat. Icteria virens virens (Linn.) 
In 1919 the Yellow-breasted Chat was found to be more gener- 
ally distributed throughout the Park than the 1918 records indi- 
cated. On June 27, 1919, a male Chat was singing and calling in 
the swamp thickets along the main road near the base of Tom 
Jones Mountain, near the Guest House. This songster was repro- 
