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(Belize) ; central northern Honduras (Ruatan Island and Puerto Cas- 

 tilla) ; southeastern Nicaragua (Greytown) ; and central Costa Rica 

 (San Jose and Cartago). South to Costa Rica. West to western 

 Costa Rica (Cartago) ; western Guatemala (Duenas and Totonico- 

 pan) ; western Guerrero (Acapulco) ; western Michoacan (Coahua- 

 yana) ; Colima (Colima) ; and southwestern Sinaloa (Mazatlan). It 

 also winters in small numbers in Cameron County, Tex. 



Migration. — Late dates of departure from the winter home are: 

 Puerto Rico — Ponce, February 26. Haiti — lie a Vache, April 29. 

 Cuba — Cienfuegos, April 15. Bahamas — New Providence, April 15. 

 Veracruz — Tres Zapotes, March 25. 



Early dates of spring arrival are : Alabama — Greensboro, March 10. 

 Georgia — Augusta, March 2, South Carolina — Columbia, March 23. 

 North Carolina — Raleigh, March 13. Virginia — ^Lawrenceville, 

 March 19. District of Columbia — Washington, March 24. 



Late dates of fall departure are: Ohio — Toledo, September 28. 

 Indiana — Bloomington, October 9. Missouri — St. Louis, October 11. 

 Kentucky — Bowling Green, October 5. Tennessee — Nashville, Octo- 

 ber 3. Arkansas — Helena, October 10. Mississippi — Biloxi, October 

 12. Louisiana — Monroe, October 16. Texas — Brownsville, October 

 8. District of Columbia — Washington, September 27. Virginia — 

 Lynchburg, October 6. North Carolina — Chapel Hill, October 6. 

 Georgia — Athens, October 11. 



Early dates of fall arrival are : Bahamas — Nassau, July 26^ Cuba — 

 Guantanamo, July 11. Jamaica, August 16. Dominican Republic — 

 Monte Viejo, August 26. Puerto Rico — Fortuna, August 28. Mexico 

 — Chiapas, Ocote, August 13. Guatemala — San Lucas, August 7. 

 Honduras — Truxillo, September 26. Costa Rica — San Jose, Septem- 

 ber 17. 



Casual records. — A number of specimens of the sycamore warbler 

 have been taken on the Atlantic seaboard. 



Egg dates. — Florida : 11 records, April 17 to June 9 ; 7 records, April 

 20 to 29. 



South Carolina: 31 records, April 2 to May 22; 21 records, April 

 14 to 26, indicating the hight of the season (Harris) . 



DENDROICA DOMINICA ALBILORA Ridgway 



SYCAMORE YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER 



Plate 44 



HABITS 



This western form of the yellow-throated warbler makes its summer 

 home in the Mississippi Valley, from southern Wisconsin and southern 

 Michigan southward, and it winters in Mexico and Central America. 



