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1871 
28. Sialia stalls . Occurs sparingly in the clearing where it 
breeds in the Martin boxes and hollow ’’stubs”. 
29. Regulus satra pa. Affects the cedar swamps and fir thickets 
where it is quite common, and breed. Took a female June 6th 
that had evidently been incubating some time but was unable to 
discover the nest. The males had a simple warbling song 
slightly resembling that of D.Blackburniae. 
30. Paru la Americana . Frequent: affects the tops of the beech 
and birch trees. 
31. Geothlypls tric has. Found sparingly in the clearings. 
32. Geothlyp ls Philadelphia . Rather common, its favorite resorts 
are the edges of the woods and small clearings grown up to 
bushes. On the stage road down we heard no less than seven 
males singing in the course of a ride of as many miles. The 
males, unlike G.trichas, which it otherwise greatly resembles 
in habits, always sings from the projecting branch of some 
dead ’’stub” at the height of about twenty or thirty feet: out 
of a dozen or more observed, there were no exceptions to this 
rule: the song is extremely beautiful] resembling somewhai; 
that of S.noveboracensisr, which however it much surpasses, it 
commences with two high notes and ends in a most exquisite 
warble with a falling inflection to the end, altogether excell¬ 
ing that of any bird in the region it inhabits. Its ordinary 
chirp is precisely like that of G.trichas but it has also a 
shrill petulant chirping note never heard from that bird. 
33. Helm inthrophaga rufi capill. Quite rare: it is here almost 
