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looked like males. They kept fanning out their tails and 
quivering their half-opened wings, at the same time 
uttering subdued, wheezy sounds but no musical notes. 
Although apparently rival suitors of the female bird, they 
did not once display the least animosity towards each other. 
No Cat-bird in our neighborhood was heard to mimic 
the note of any other species of bird this year. 
OrariR-e-crested Warbler . My very first spr ing 
record of the occurrence of this Warbler was made on May 
13, v/hen about 6.30 A. M. I came upon a bird sunning 
itself in a leafless tnicket overrun with wild' grapevines 
near our hillside poultry yard. Thence it flew, presently, 
to a low-sweeping branch of a large hickory and began 
probing the terminal, swollen buds in much the same 
deliberate, abstracted manner as that so often charac¬ 
teristic of the Tennessee Warbler. It was very tame and 
sluggish, permitting close approach. From distances no 
greater than ten yards I watched it closely through my 
glass, in clear sunlight, for upwards of fifteen minutes, 
identifying it beyond all possibility of doubt. It was 
an exceptionally dull-colored bird, probably a female, with 
dusky olivaceous upper parts and grayish under parts, 
tinged only very slightly with yellowish. The top of head 
appeared uniform with the baxk in general coloring but its 
sides showed ill-defined and scarce noticeable superciliary 
stripes. The bird was quite along and uttered no sound save 
an occasional faint lisping tnip, sometimes abbreviated to tsi,' 
