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Hanover, September 24. Massachusetts — ^Wellesley, October 23. New 

 York — Canandaigua, October 12. Pennsylvania — Berwyn, October 

 19. District of Columbia — Washington, October 10. West Virginia — 

 Bluefield, October 8. Virginia — Sweet Briar, November 1. Georgia — 

 Tifton, November 2. Alabama — Birmingham, October 25. Florida — 

 Arcadia, October 30. Cuba — Bosque de la Habana, October 30. 



Early dates of fall arrival are : North Dakota — ^Argusville, August 

 23. Texas — Commerce, August 28. Illinois — Glen Ellyn, August 19. 

 Ohio — Little Cedar Point, July 31. Kentucky — Versailles, August 

 31. Tennessee — Nashville, August 29. Mississippi — Bay St. Louis, 

 August 11. New York — New York, August 11. Pennsylvania — Ber- 

 wyn, August 19. District of Columbia — Washington, August 2. Vir- 

 ginia — Charlottesville, August 10. North Carolina — Mount Mitchell, 

 July 30. Georgia — Savannah, August 10. Florida — Key West, July 

 29. Cuba — Santiago de las Vegas, September 20. Costa Rica — San 

 Jose, August 17. Colombia — Santa Isabel, September 22. Vene- 

 zuela — Escorial, October 14. Ecuador — Tumbaco, October 12. 

 Peru — Tambillo, November 19. 



Casual records. — A specimen of Blackburnian warbler was collected 

 at Frederickshaab, Greenland, on October 16, 1845. One was taken 

 at Ogden, Utah, in September 1871, and another near Fort Bayard, 

 N. M., in May 1876. On August 21, 1924, a male was watched closely 

 for sometime near Libby, Mont. 



Egg dates. — Maine : 5 records, June 2 to 17. 



New York : 23 records. May 29 to July 6 : 16 records, June 7 to 17, 

 indicating the height of the season. 



New Hampshire : 6 records. May 23 to June 18. 



Pennsylvania : 5 records. May 28 to June 9. 



Quebec : 2 records, June 15 and 20. 



DENDROICA DOMINICA DOMINICA (Linnaeus) 

 EASTERN YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER 



CONTBIBUTED BY ALEXANDER SPBUNT, Jb. 



Plates 42, 43 



HABITS 



One of the botanical attractions of the South is the Spanish moss 

 {Tillandsia usneoides) that drapes with its graceful, swaying strands 

 the cypresses in the lagoons and backwaters, the live oaks that stand 

 in spectacular avenues on the approaches of so many plantations of 

 the Carolina Low Country and in magnificent groves throughout the 

 Coastal Plain, and even the pines that forest wide reaches of Georgia 

 and northern Florida. To many ornithologists the thought of this 



