686 BIRDS OF SOUTHWESTERN TEXAS. 



It was very abuuclaiit at Corpus Cliristi during my stay there, January 

 2L to February V2 ; Hancock observed it there as hitc as March 20. At 

 Boerne Urown found it an abundant winter resident. 



236. Dendroica maculosa (Gmel.). Maguolia Warbler. 



JJresser's note of this species merely records it as transient at San 

 Antonio. 



237. Dendroica castanea (Wils.), Bay-breasted Warbler. 



" Passes Sau Antonio in the spring and autumn" (Dresser.) 



238. Dendroica blackburniae (Gmel.). Blackburuiau Warbler. 



This Warbler is common near San Antonio in the spring and autumn 

 according to Dresser. Brown obtained a single specimen at Boerne, 

 the only one seen, March ol. 



239. Dendroica dominica albilora Baird. Sycamore Warbler. 



The first of these birds was noticed March 17, in some low growth of 

 mesquite and prickly pear on the side of an embankment in the city. 

 * * * Between March 18 and 24 the}' appeared to be quite common, 

 but after that date no specimens were seen." (Hancock.) Hancock calls 

 the bird he saw at Corpus Christi dominica, but this is probably a mis- 

 take in identification, as dominica, so far as known, is exclusively an 

 eastern form. Brown says it is an uncommon migrant at Boerne, first 

 seen on March 19. " Passes San Antonio in the spring and autumn" 

 (Dresser). 



240. Dendroica chrysoparia SCL. & Salv. Golden-cheeked Warbler. 



After spring had fairly set in at San Antonio, about March 1, I 

 began to look out for this very rare Warbler, but it was not seen there 

 at all, and it was only at Leon Springs, in a peculiarly favored bird 

 haunt, a dense, well-watered grove of deciduous trees, that I met with 

 the species at all. On March 12, while collecting in the place men- 

 tioned, m3' attention was attracted by a strange sylvicoliue note, which, 

 upon instinct, I at once referred to the Golden-cheeked, although it did 

 not remind me in the least of the queer note oi the Prairie Warbler to 

 which ]\Ir. Brown likens it. The sound was exceedingly difficult to lo- 

 cate, almost as much so as the song of Swainson's Warbler, but at 

 length, after an exciting search, lasting perhaps ten minutes, during 

 which time I had marched towards every point of the comi^ass, the 

 bird, a male in full spring livery, was seen in the top of a still leafless 

 tree, and in a few seconds the prize was in my hand. There were several 

 other Warblers in the same tree top with this one, but I was unable to 

 obtain or identify any of them. The species was not again seen until 

 the 18th, when, after a similar experience, I took another male. On this 

 day, the last one of my stay at Leon Springs, I heard the notes of two 

 or three more, all in the same grove, in tree tops, but was unable to get 

 any more of them. 



"' It was a rare bird at Boerne, and my own series was not brought up 

 to a total of seven without special exertion. The first individual made his 



