Widmann — A Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri. 22.3 



his list of birds of western Missouri and Mr. H. Nehrling found it 

 at Pierce City, May 2, 1884. There is a single record from Iberia, 

 Miller Co., but no other observer in Missouri reportetl it to the 

 Department of Agriculture, and neither Mr. Currier nor Mr. 

 Praeger met with it near Keokuk, nor has it ever been observed 

 in the southeast. The only location where it has been found 

 oftener is the immediate vicinity of St. Louis, and there, too, its 

 occurrence is irregular. The earliest date for the state is 

 April 27, 1904, Iberia, and for St. Louis, April 30, 1885; the 

 last in spring, May 9, 1887. The earliest in fall, September 1, 

 1887, an adult male, and the last, September 24, 1879, also an 

 adult male. 



655. Dendroica coRONATA (Linn.). Myrtle Warbler. 



Sylvia coronata. Sylvicola coronata. Yellow-rumped Warbler. Yellow- 

 rump. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, north to limit of tree- 

 growth from Newfoundland and southern Labrador to western 

 Alaska. Breeds from western Massachusetts and northern New 

 York, northern peninsula of Michigan, Manitoba, Saskatchewan 

 and Alberta northward. Winters from southern New England, 

 Ohio and lower Missouri Valleys southward to West Indies 

 and through Mexico and Central America to Panama. 



In Missouri a very common transient visitant in all parts 

 of the state, and a fairly common winter visitant in the heavily 

 wooded southeast, less regularly northward to the Missouri 

 River. Their presence in winter depends largely on the abun- 

 dance of drupes of Poison Ivy, of which they are very fond 

 and in search of which they roam about. If there is enough of 

 this berry-like fruit, Yellow-rumps may be found in considerable 

 numbers in St. Louis Co. throughout December, but their ranks 

 are always thinned very much in January when our coldest 

 weather comes, though a few sometimes brave the rigor of our 

 hard winters successfully. They also like to eat the berries of 

 the Red Cedar, and Dr. Eimbeck tells me that the Cedars in his 

 place at New Haven, Franklin Co., are a great attraction for 

 wintering Yellow-rumps. Being the hardiest of all Warblers 

 and the earliest to push northward, small numbers appear in 

 places where they have not wintered, even north of the Missouri 

 River, as early as the second or third week in March, but real 

 migration does not set in before the first of April and in back- 

 ward springs as late as the 9th and 12th of that month. At 



