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Ontario — Point Pelee, October 5. Michigan — Grand Rapids, October 

 19. Ohio — Toledo, October 19. Indiana — Eiclunond, October 14. 

 Tennessee — Nashville, October 3. Arkansas — Monticello, October 2. 

 Louisiana — Covington, October 26. Mississippi — Gulfport, Novem- 

 ber 2. Quebec — Hatley, September 30. New Brunswick — Scotch 

 Lake, September 28. Maine — Portland, October 24. New Hamp- 

 shire — Hanover, October 11. Massachusetts — Rockport, October 25. 

 New York — Rhinebeck, October 21. Pennsylvania — Berwyn, October 

 26. District of Columbia, Washington, October 17. West Virginia — 

 French Creek, October 1. Virginia — Lynchburg, October 17. North 

 Carolina — Rocky Mount, October 23. South Carolina — Charleston, 

 October 22. Georgia — Athens, November 4. Florida — Gainesville, 

 November 19. 



Early dates of fall arrival are: Bahamas — Watling Island, Sep- 

 tember 28. Cuba — Habana, August 10. Dominican Republic — San 

 Juan, October 21. Puerto Rico — Parguera, September 19. Nicara- 

 gua — Rio Escondido, October 20. Costa Rica — ^Villa Quesada, Oc- 

 tober 24. 



Banding. — Only a single migration record is available from banded 

 birds. A parula warbler banded as an adult at Flushing, Long Island, 

 New York, on September 16, 1946, was found dead about October 1, 

 1947, at La Grange, Maine. 



Casual records. — The parula warbler has been recorded three times 

 in Colorado (in El Paso County, at Kit Carson, and at Denver) ; and 

 three times in Wyoming (once at Cheyenne and twice at Torrington) . 



Egg dates. — Massachusetts : 52 records. May 20 to July 7 ; 29 rec- 

 ords, May 29 to June 10, indicating the height of the season. 



Connecticut : 39 records. May 25 to June 25 ; 25 records, June 1 to 10. 



South Carolina : 20 records, April 10 to June 24 ; 10 records, April 

 30 to May 11. 



PARULA AMERICANA AMERICANA (Linnaeus) 



SOUTHERN PARULA WARBLER 



Plate 22 



HABITS 



This southern race of our well-known blue yellow-backed warbler 

 is said to breed from the District of Columbia southward to Florida 

 and Alabama. William Brewster (1896), in describing and naming 

 the northern race, restricted the Linnaean name americana to the 

 southern bird because it was evidently based on Catesby's excellent 

 plate, drawn from a bird taken in South Carolina. In his comparative 

 diagnoses of the two forms, he describes the southern bird as "averag- 



