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Winter range. — The winter home of the Swainson's warbler is very 

 imperfectly known from a dozen or more specimens, most of which are 

 from Jamaica where it has been listed as a rare winter resident. There 

 are records also from the Swan Islands (March 1) ; Santa Lucia, 

 Quintana Koo ; Pacaytain, Campeche ; and the city of Veracruz. Two 

 specimens have been taken near Habana, Cuba ; one on September 25, 

 the other in April; and one near Guantanamo on January 18, 1914. 



Migration. — Dates of spring departure are: Jamaica, April 8. 

 Cuba — Habana, April 14. 



Early dates of spring arrival are : Florida — St. Petersburg, March 

 25. Alabama — Autaugaville, April 3. Georgia — Savannah, March 

 25. South Carolina, April 1. Louisiana — New Orleans, March 30. 

 Mississippi — Biloxi, March 31. Tennessee — Memphis, April 20. 

 Texas — Point Bolivar, April 17. 



Late dates of fall departure are: Texas — Kemah, September 27. 

 Tennessee — Sulphur Springs, September 9. Mississippi — Gulfport, 

 October 6. South Carolina — Charleston, October 10. Georgia — 

 Savannah, October 18. Alabama — Greensboro, September 6. Flor- 

 ida — Pensacola, October 2; Sombrero Key (4 struck lighthouse 

 November 10). 



Dates of fall arrival are: Tamaulipas — Matamoros, August 29. 

 Jamaica, October 1. 



Casual records. — A specimen was recorded near Corsicana, Tex., on 

 August 24, 1880 ; another was collected at Kearney, Nebr., on April 9, 

 1905 ; and one near Holly, Prowers County, Colo., on May 12, 1913. 



Egg dates. — Florida : 3 records. May 7. Georgia : 35 records, May 

 4 to July 13 ; 19 records. May 29 to June 17, indicating the height of the 

 season. South Carolina: 28 records. May 2 to June 30; 14 records. 

 May 12 to June 12 (Harris) . 



HELMITHEROS VERMIVOROS (Gmelin) 



WORM-EATING WARBLER 



Plate 10 



HABITS 



The breeding range of the worm-eating warbler covers much of the 

 central portion of the United States east of the prairie regions. Its 

 center of abundance seems to be in the vicinity of Pennsylvania, but 

 it breeds less abundantly northward to southern Iowa, New York, and 

 New England and southward to Missouri and to northern Alabama 

 and Georgia, as well as in much of the intervening wooded region, 

 where it is essentially a woodland bird. 



