Black-and-white Warbler: Mniotilta varia (Linnaeus).—This local and uncommon summer resident lives in deciduous forest and woodland. Specimens taken in the breeding season and actual records of nesting come from Doniphan, Douglas, Coffey, Greenwood, Sedgwick, Labette, and Cherokee counties. Temporal occurrence in the State is indicated in [Table 17].
Breeding schedule.—Eggs are laid in May and June.
Number of eggs.—Clutch-size is around 5 eggs (Davie, 1898).
Nests are placed on the ground, in depressions or niches, under heavy cover.
Prothonotary Warbler: Protonotaria citrea (Boddaert).—This is a local summer resident in eastern Kansas, in understory of riparian timber and swampy woodland. Specimens taken in the breeding season and actual records of nesting come from Doniphan, Douglas, Linn, and Cowley counties. Temporal occurrence is indicated in [Table 17].
Breeding schedule.—Twenty-two records of breeding span the period May 11 to July 10 ([Fig. 8]); the modal date for egg-laying is June 5, and 75 per cent of all clutches are laid in the period June 1 to 20.
Number of eggs.—Clutch-size is 5 eggs (4.5, 3-6; 15).
Nests are placed in holes and niches in willow, red haw, elm, and a variety of stumps, about eight feet high (ranging from five to 20 feet), usually over water. A pair nested once in a gourd under the eave of a house in Winfield, Cowley County, and another pair in a tin cup on a shelf at a sawmill (Goss, ex Long, 1936).
Parula Warbler: Parula americana (Linnaeus).—This summer resident in eastern Kansas usually can be found in heavy woodland and flood-plain timber. Specimens taken in the breeding season and actual records of breeding come from Doniphan, Riley, Douglas, Montgomery, Labette, and Cherokee counties. Temporal occurrence is indicated in [Table 17].
Breeding schedule.—Eggs are laid at least from mid-May to mid-June.