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229. Helminthophila chrysoptera (Linn.). Golden-winged Warbler. 



Dresser's is the only list which contains this bird, and he merely notes 

 it as passing San Antonio in spring and autumn. 



230. Helminthophila ruficapilla (WiLS.). Nashville Wiirbler. 



Neither Hancock nor the writer met with this Warbler, but Brown 

 noted two individuals at Boerne, March 30 and April 11. Dresser briefly 

 records it as a migrant at San Antonio. 



231. Helminthophila celata (Say). Orange-crowned Warbler.. 



I first saw this bird at Corpus Christi on January 21, when two were 

 secured, in the chaparral and along a fence-row overgrown with shrub- 

 bery. Four or five were seen. Three or four more were observed the 

 next day near the same place.' I infer from this that the bird is a winter 

 resident here. Hancock saw several near Corpus Christi in company 

 with Parula Warblers, on March 27. Two were seen by me at San 

 Antonio on February 27, at which place it was not again observed until 

 March 21. Two were taken at Leon Springs on March 11. It arrived 

 at Boerne " the first week in March, and thereafter was the most abun- 

 dant of the Warblers," according to Brown. "Passes San Antonio in 

 the spring and autumn" (Dresser.) 



Genus COMPSOTHLYPIS Cabanis. 



232. Compsothlypis americana (Lixn.). Parula Warbler. 



This diminutive Warbler was observed at Leon Springs on March 18, 

 when a male in full song was shot out of a tree top. Three days later 

 another male in song was seen at San Antonio. Dresser merely notes 

 it as a spring and autumn migrant at that place, with no data as to its 

 abundance. Hancock saw many of them at Corpus Christi on March 27. 

 Brown gives it as rare at Boerne, arriving " March 20 in full song." 



Genus DENDROICA Gray. 



233. Deudroica aestiva (Gmel.). Yellow Warbler. 



Dresser states that this bird is common near San Antonio in spring 

 and autumn, and that it occasionally breeds near the Medina River. 



234. Dendroica caenilescens (Gmel.). Black-throated Blue Warbler. 



This Warbler is a transient at San Antonio according to Dresser. 



235. Dendroica coronata (Linn.). Myrtle Warbler. 



Upon my arrival at San Antonio, December 18, this was found to be 

 one of the most abundant birds wintering iu that locality, and their 

 famihar " tsip" was to be heard at all times in the shrubbery and shade 

 trees iu town as well as in the mesquite and along the river. But they 

 were rarely seen in the mesquite. They continued to be abundant there 

 up to the date of my departure, March 29. " Some few pass the winter 

 here, but most of them are only seen on their migration — A. L. H." 

 (Dresser). I took one at Leon Springs on March 14, the only one seen. 



