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eter of the range was found dead by J. K. Potter (MS.) at Colling- 

 wood, N. J., on November 2, 1943. According to H. H. Bailey (1913) 

 departure dates for southeastern Virginia are in the "latter part of 

 July." May T. Cooke (1929) gives the latest occurrence about Wash- 

 ington as September 11, 1927. Near Lynchburg, R. H. Freer (MS.) 

 has seen it once on September 30. These are all considerably later 

 than Bailey's late July, and though very late, dates indicate that the 

 species may remain in Virigina well into August. C. W. Richmond 

 and J. D. Figgins secured specimens on July 28, 1889, at Four Mile 

 Run (near Washington), these being noted by William Rives (1890) 

 in his catalog of Virginia birds. 



Late September sees the last migrants leaving central and western 

 North Carolina ; the twenty-fifth of that month in the Raleigh area 

 and the twenty-eighth in the Asheville region (Pearson and the Brim- 

 leys, 1942). In the coastal area the average is probably a little later. 



From South Carolina southward, as already noted, the species is a 

 permanent resident though the scattered wintering individuals are 

 quite probably birds that nested in the northern portion of the range. 

 About Charleston birds can be seen through July and August, but 

 being quiet are not nearly so noticeable, and their numbers fall off 

 in September and October. The young appear to leave much earlier, 

 indeed, shortly after the cessation of the song period in mid-June, 

 though doubtless early July sees some of them still here. 



In Florida I have not seen this warbler south of the Lake Okeecho- 

 bee-Kissimmee Prairie region in winter but occasional individuals 

 are seen there throughout January and February in the "hammocks" 

 and they begin to sing in early March. In the western part of the 

 state F. M. Weston writes from Pensacola that the "fall migration is 

 hardly noticeable in this region, for the birds have been silent and 

 inconspicuous since June, and the migratory movement consists merely 

 of a quiet withdrawal from the area." Of its winter status in that 

 area he follows with the statement that the "yellow-throated warbler 

 winters regularly in small numbers, at which season it is confined to 

 the live oak groves. In order to find it, an observer must scan 

 carefully every chickadee-titmouse group found in situable situations. 

 The composition of such a group would be half-a-dozen each of the 

 tufted titmouse, Florida chickadee, myrtle warbler and ruby-crowned 

 kinglet, a blue-gray gnatcatcher, a blue-headed vireo, an orange- 

 crowned warbler and one or two yellow-throated warblers." 



Alexander Wilson (1832) in speaking of the first specimen of this 

 warbler he ever saw (in Georgia) stated that it was late in February 

 and was the first spring appearance of the species in that area, fol- 

 lowing this at once with the explanation that "they leave the U. S. 



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