236 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



and Minnesota; west to eastern Nebraska and eastern Texas. 

 Breeds from North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas 

 northward and winters from southern Mexico thi'ough Central 

 America to Panama, rarely to Colombia. 



In Missouri a common and generally distributed summer 

 resident in all wooded districts, especially in river bottoms, in 

 the southeast as well as in the Ozarks and prairie region. Audu- 

 bon found it in the region of Leavenworth and St. Joseph, 

 May 4 and 6, 1843. Dr. Hoy writes that it was abundant 

 in the Grand River bottom near Chillicothe, May 16, 1854. 

 Dr. J. A. Allen noted it at Leavenworth in May 1871, and W. E. 

 D. Scott calls it a common, but shy breeder at Warrensburg 

 in 1874. In the peninsula, where summer sojourners arrive 

 much earlier than in the rest of the state, its presence has been 

 noted as early as April 9, but in the vicinity of St. Louis the 

 "firsts" are recorded between April 21 and 25, and in western 

 and northern Missouri in the last days of the month (St. Louis 

 April 21, 1885, April 21, 1886; Independence April 29, 1900, 

 April 30, 1899; Stotesbury, Vernon Co., April 30, 1898; Keokuk, 

 April 26, 1898, April 30, 1895). Full numbers have seldom 

 been present at St. Louis before the first week of May. The 

 bulk of the species leaves us in August and the last bird was 

 seen at St. Louis September 8, 1897. 



678. Geothlypis agilis (Wils.). Connecticut Warbler. 



Sylvia agilis. Sylvicola agilis. Trichas agilis. Oporornis agilis. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, north to New England, 

 Ontario, Michigan and Manitoba. Breeds in Manitoba, Minne- 

 sota, Wisconsin and northern Michigan. Winters somewhere 

 in South America, migrating by way of Bahama, but never 

 recorded from October 22 to April 9. 



In Missouri a rather rare but regular spring transient visitant 

 along the eastern border from St. Louis northward (Quincy, 

 Warsaw, Keokuk). Only one record in fall, October 5, 1897, 

 Keokuk, Mr. E. S. Currier. The 14th, 15th and 16th of May 

 are the days when it is first noted at St. Louis and it is always 

 with us on May 20th, 21st and 22nd, and likely to remain 

 to the end of the month, if the weather is cool. May 29, 1882, 

 May 31, 1897; and at Keokuk, June 1, 1897. It frequents dark, 

 shady forests and is usually seen along the banks of creeks and 

 sloughs. Very shy, it would easily escape detection, if its very 



