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Oporonis agilis. 
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in tho tops oPthe trees. Repeatedly, lately, I'have 
soou and shot thera in maples and willov^s at least twenty- 
x"ive root above tho ground. When found in such situa¬ 
tions tiioy are :-s lally perched on some dry tv/igs, motion¬ 
less a;.d t i^parently suniiing thorns el ves . f-Toro rarely, 
but still, not infreuer.tly ii.i x'ainy or lo'voring weather, v.o 
ha'/e fouiid th.ori actually feeding among tine higiier 
branches. We have liad good success in calling thorn out 
of their lastnessos by making a sh.rill cliimirng or squoah— 
ing noise •.•itIn t.ho lips pre 
ssed against t’ne brc]: of the ■ 
and all is si- 
usually orno 
;athering, his phlegmatic 
hand. Tlio result is often surprising. Prom a thicket 
vrtiicii, a mioment before, vras apparently tenantless hurry, 
various Sparronrs and Warblers, with usually a Catbird o* 
tv/o, some excited, all extromoln'' curious. If tine c '^lor 
keeps n.-ell liidden their numbers an.d anxiety increasoSy 
until tine bus'nes around Iiim are full of birds all na- ^r 
to discover the cause of t'-o comm6ti.Dn. They behave 
strikinr^ly like tim Inuman crovrds that so q-u.ickly collect 
in t; o streets of city vrhore a '-orse lias fallen or 
cU.;y tl i.i ng unusua.l 'i,od. And simil'.rilY '..’heii r 
curiosity is- sati: fieddqudickly dispel 
lent again. The Connecticut V/arblor i; 
of tho last comers to such 
disposition not being lasily overcome by curiosity. 
But ho usually ;’oes come in t^m -uid, and hopping out on 
some dry branch or projecting twig peers shyly out into 
the su.nshine ciiirping once or , twice in anxious tones as 
he shov/s his sulpinur-yollow breast against thgreen 
back-grcupd. I have heard the note of this W'arbler on] y 
a few times t.uis season. Witliout re faring to I’orn nr 
impressions I should describe it as short, sliarp and a 
trifle hn.rsh, but also somov/hat motallie. At e'dis¬ 
tance it sounds a little like the chirp of Cardinalis 
but near at liand is appreciably dif'f.i-o.t. iT'is tlio 
only note wiiieh I ha'/o Iioard this season. Tho bird\isu- 
aiiy utWirs it early in t^-e morning, and e'/on then rarolv 
ur^esE excited or suspicious. it convoys a.,, imnression" ’ 
o. petul.inci, sometimes al; ost of anger. 
Spolmen sav/ ton Oeor_oni^ tl'is morning, seven in th- 
Maple Swamp, tlir ee in tlie Pino Sv/amp. 
aseaped. We saw both 
ipi.iy -s a;, .er they had fallen, but before wo could 
li^potions whore 
tha^- o-T- lound. It is only by groat good luck 
thao one can secure a uounddd Connecticut Warbler Th-v 
crawl into holes as soon as a 
^mlking through a bed of Impa- 
Oporpnj.^ hopped up tu.e branch of a 
Ground r descended to the 
1 ,round, and i^hreaded its v.-av anong 
6tmnB with a gliding motion^ 
of a mouse. After a while’ it 
ho t hi c k 13 ’- —r owing 
half run half walk, like thit 
cended a bush 
again as 
