I have not seen enough material to trace subsequent molts and plumages, which doubtless parallel those of the parula warbler.
Despite these differences it would be possible to mistake the performance, especially at a distance, for that of a Parula singing listlessly.
It is much like the well-known parula warbler in appearance and behavior, but can be recognized in the field by the conspicuous black lores and cheeks and by the complete absence of any pectoral band.
Ottumwa, Iowa: "It was a typical parula warbler with the exception that the blue-gray color extended over the throat and terminated abruptly on the upper breast.
Murray writes to me from Virginia: "The songs of the parula and cerulean in this section are very similar, but not difficult to distinguish.
This oak was in the Lakeside Woods, and more Parula Warblers were observed in it than in all of the remaining trees of the woodland.
The latter bird, however, was the larger or rather plumper-looking of the two, and if the upper side of the wings could be seen the absence of the white bars which are so conspicuous on the wings of the Parula Warbler was quickly noticed.
These are indistinguishable from those of the northern parula warbler.
The above range is for the species as a whole, of which two geographic races are recognized: the southern parula warbler (P.
The nests of the northern parula warbler that we used to find in southern Massachusetts were all located in haunts similar to those described, and mostly in old orchards heavily festooned with beard moss (Usnea).
On fine sunshiny days the parula warbler, for that is his name, loves the topmost branches of the tallest trees; if the day is gloomy he comes down to the lower branches, affording a better opportunity to study him.
I remember one morning seeing a cheerful flock of prothonotary and parula warblers and noticing one of the former leave his companions and fly to a clump of willows where another less brilliantly colored, presumably the female, joined him.
It was only when I discovered that his back was a beautiful shade of bronzy-greenish-yellow that I knew he was the parula warbler, the blue yellow back.
During this shower of warblers the parula was the most numerous species, excepting, perhaps, the chestnut sided.
But the parulawarbler does not remain long about the gardens and orchards, though it will not forsake us altogether for the Canadian forests, where most of its relatives pass the summer.
Through an open window of an apartment in the very heart of New York City, a parula warbler flew this spring of 1897, surely the daintiest, most exquisitely beautiful bird visitor that ever voluntarily lodged between two brick walls.
See also Parula Warbler (Slate) and Yellow-bellied Woodpecker (Black and White).
Its song bears a marked resemblance to that of theParula and its call-note is said to be like the tchep of the Myrtle Warbler.
Its song has been compared to that of both the Parula Warbler and the Chipping Sparrow.
Call, a warbler lisp and tchip of the Myrtle Warbler; song resembling that of Parula Warbler.
Have you seen my cousin Sprite the Parula Warbler, yet?
I'm going to stay right here," declared Sprite the Parula Warbler, for that is who it was.
In the summer the Parula is a resident of Eastern North America, but in the winter it seeks the warmer climate of Florida and southward.
Here the Parula makes its nest, a globular or pencil home, usually in bunches of the festooned moss.
The Parula or Blue Yellow-backed Warbler, as it is sometimes called, is one of the smallest and daintiest representatives of the family of wood warblers.
In New England, I have always found them nesting in company with Parula Warblers, in dead coniferous swamps in which the branches are covered with long pendant moss.
This species is similar to the Parula but is more extensively yellow below, and has black lores and ear coverts.
These strange little Flycatchers are found in swamps such as those usually frequented by Olive-sided Flycatchers and Parula Warblers.
And, to the Parula warblers: "Go home, little friends of God!
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