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mediates under this name. More of these birds should be collected 

 in this area in the breeding season to check their identity. 



Other fall specimens were obtained at Engelhard, October 14 and 20, 

 and Morehead City, November 22, 



ICTERIA VIRENS VIRENS (Linnaens) : Yellow-breasted Chat 



Of this elusive species skins come from Southport, May 11 ; Wades- 

 boro. May 27; Murphy (9 miles southwest), June 14; and 3,200 feet 

 elevation, 3 miles west of West Jefferson, July 14. 



WILSONIA CITRINA (Boddaert) : Hooded Warbler 



Recorded from Murphy, June 7 and 12 ; 3,700 feet elevation, 12 miles 

 east of Hayesville, June 29 ; Wadesboro, May 27 ; Rockingham, June 

 1 ; Reidsville, September 18 ; Clinton, April 29; South Mills, April 17; 

 and Southport, May 16. Females in this series show interesting varia- 

 tion in the amount of black present on the forepart of the body, 

 ranging from one with the faintest of darkened yellow on the fore- 

 neck, with a slight edging of dusky on the auricular region, to birds 

 with the center and posterior part of the crown extensively black and 

 the breast plain, or with the black much reduced on the crown but 

 extended as a smudged band or necklace across the foreneck and 

 upper breast. 



WILSONIA CANADENSIS (Linnaeus) : Canada Warbler 



This mountain breeding bird was taken at 4,500 feet elevation on 

 Rocky Ridge, June 21, and at 5,100 feet on Rocky Bald, June 20, both 

 localities being in Macon County, 12 to 13 miles west of Franklin. 

 Others were secured at 5,500 feet on Elk Knob, 7 miles north of Boone 

 July 10, and at 4,600 feet on Three Tops Mountain, 2 miles southeast of 

 Creston, on July 13, the latter being a fully grown immature individual. 



SETOPHAGA RUTICILLA (Linnaeus): Redstart 



In spring this alert warbler was taken at South Mills on April 19 

 and 24, near Clinton on May 3, and at Roseboro on May 5. A 

 summer male shot 11 miles east of Wadesboro in Anson County, 

 May 26, has an exceptionally large orange wing spot. Individuals 

 were seen but not taken 12 miles east of Hayesville on July 4 and 

 near West Jefferson on July 14. Fall specimens were obtained at 

 Reidsville on September 22 and 25 and on the Catawba River west of 

 Statesville on September 30 and October 3. 



