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Oporonis agilis. 
M'.ddlGsex Couiity, T'ass. 
(Sep t . 22| gro\7S in unusual luKUKiance. The nightshado , cornall, 
Viburnums and black alder are hung '.Tith clusters of ber¬ 
ries, ripening or already matured and on some of these 
Robins, Catbirds, and a 'i'ev/’ Red-eyed Vireos uero '’eoding. 
Nor vne 'e tlie Connecticut Warblers v/anting; the place 
v/as a eerfoct paradise for them and we started oi'{ht in a 
comparatively small area. Five oT t^vese 'ere in a 
narrov/ strip od white v/illov/s vdiich formed an outer bor¬ 
der of the s./amp. Tliis ground is unlike any where [ 
have :-eon tee bird before beii.g dry, and in places, 
stony beneath. But it is enly a few yards v/ids and is 
friiiged on the inner edge v/here it joins tie sv^amp, by 
extensive beds of Impatiens which probably forms the 
sttrafition. The stalks of the Imp<atiens are non' infes¬ 
ted v/ith a peculiar yellowish, striped moasuring-v/orm 
and upon dissecting some of the 'Oporonis v/e found their 
stomachs crammed ivith 
black beetles. 
tiioso i/orms, and al£ 
o, 
a fev/ small 
23. 
From my experience vyith the Connecticut Werbler this 
autumn I sliould now chescribe his character as a many- 
sided one. Ho is by no means alv/ays tlie sluggish 
Thru.sh-like bird wo used to think him. Indeed, hardly 
any t\7o individuals behave precisely alike. Usually, 
it is urue, they flit up to a low branch, v/’hero they sit 
quietly for a moment before taking a longer flight or 
returning to the ground. But some rise tiurriodly arh 
after perching, jerk their tails and move about nervously. 
It takosvery little to alarm sucli individuals, when they 
v/ili vanisli so quickly that you can hardly realise ho’w 
they disappeared. If one of tuis disposition be fired 
at and missed, it is next to impossible to got another 
sig’nt at him. Others again are so tamo that they v/ill 
sit perfectly i.u concerned v/ithin six feet of you, and 
p orha,ps drop back to the ground Vi'hilo you are trying to 
got far enough to shoot without maiigling the speci¬ 
men. On th'.'! round t>: 03 r are very^^or^spicuous, and keep 
so closely hidden tJiat you can rarely see them. I 
killed one j^^-^i'Orday v/'hieh acted in a verj'' odd mannerj 
it fjtc.rtod j. rom a bod o ■' .Ln’patiens rXow onl’'^ a few ■'^ards 
and droppoa again. I went directly to the s<ot and 
dii-jGov ret,, it riuming oii ahead as quicJcljr as a mouse, 
but it t/as so very active that I could not shoot it.’ 
A'te- beiiig flushed a number of times it at length took 
took -o some thick bushes, but even hero would not eerch 
.t ;inally secured it by getting ny com-oanion to driVe 
itJ;owards me. Another, also killed yest-rday, acted 
(ax ter it had flovn, up "rom the ground) exact" v ] ik.. n 
D^^eca, hopping .!’rom twig to twig, flit.ting''on ahead 
oi^me, a,d keeping continually in rotion. i could hard]y 
boxieve wu-it it was ars Oporonis until r had it in, 
liand. Still another phase of behavior, and by r.o mo; 
an u n c omrnon oe 
IS 
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that of the occurence of those birds 
