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(A. A. S.), 1909; Stamford, 1888 (L. B. B.), 1902, 1905 (Por- 

 ter) ; Seymour, 1888 (Eames) ; Bridgeport, 1892 (Eames) ; Mil- 

 ford, 1893 (Eames) ; Portland, 1874, 1875, 1876, 1882, 1892, 

 1896, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1909. J. N. C. 

 wrote in 1900 that in all his collecting he had only seen or taken 

 two Bay-breasted Warblers at Saybrook. 



Dendroica striata (J. R. Forster). Black-poll Warbler. 



An abundant spring and fall migrant in the last of May and 

 in September and October; their presence in the spring usually 

 indicating the close of the warbler migration. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May 13, 

 1904, April 29, 1908 (Pangburn) ; Portland, May 8, 1880. Latest 

 record. New Haven, June 9, 1907, June 16, 1907 (A. A. S. and 

 Barnum) ; Portland, June 17, 1907. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Sept. 8, 1902 ; 

 Portland, Sept. 14, 1908; East Hartford, Sept. 1, 1887, 1890 

 (W. E. T.) ; Litchfield, Sept. 7, 1905 (H. Sanford). Latest 

 record. New Haven, Oct. 25, 1906; Portland, Oct. 25, 1887. 



Oct. 30, 1906, New Haven, a pensioner was taken by L. B. B. 



Dendroica fusca (Muller). Blackburnian Warbler. 



A tolerably common spring and much rarer fall migrant in 

 May and September; a few spending the summer in the pine 

 groves of the northern part of Litchfield County, and doubtless 

 breeding there. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May 4, 

 1900, April 29, 191 1 (A. W. H.) ; April 30, 1908 (Pangburn) ; 

 Portland, May 6, 1891, 1896. Latest record. New Haven, May 

 26, 1900; May 30, 1907 (Moore) ; Portland, May 30, 1882. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Sept. 13, 1905; 

 Portland, Sept. 5, 1892; Stamford, Aug. 30, Sept. 4, 1893 (Por- 

 ter) ; Litchfield, Aug. 29, 1892 (E. S. W.). Latest record. New 

 Haven, Oct. 2, 1888 (H. W. F.) ; Portland, Sept. 28, 1875 ; Litch- 

 field, Sept. 13, 1905 (E. S. W.). 



Summer records. July, 1873, Lyme, a female taken (J. G. 

 Ely) ; x June 25, 1879, Cornwall, male and female taken (Wool- 

 sey, in Peabody Museum) ; June 19, 20, 1904, Salisbury, two 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 16. 



