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October 11. Louisiana— Monroe, September 30. New York— Bal- 

 ston, September 23. Pennsylvania— Atglen, October 10, District of 

 Columbia— Washington, September 13. West Virginia— Bluefield, 

 September 19. Virginia— Salem, October 24. North Carolina— An- 

 drews, October 11 ; Raleigh, November 3. South Carolina— Charles- 

 ton, October 11. Georgia— Atlanta, October 10. Florida— Fernan- 

 dina, October 3. 



Casual records. — A specimen was collected in Bermuda on October 

 4, 1899. An individual was present at Wood Pond near Jackson, 

 Somerset County, Maine, September 1 to 12, 1935 ; and one was re- 

 ported seen at Mayagiiez, Puerto Rico, on October 15, 1943, following 

 a small hurricane. 



Egg 6?a/^es.— Connecticut : 7 records. May 27 to June 29. 



New Jersey : 4 records, May 21 to 30. 



Pennsylvania : 75 records. May 15 to June 30 : 45 records. May 24 

 to June 5, indicating the height of the season (Harris). 



VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA (Linnaeus) 



GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER 



Plates 10, 11 



Contributed by Winsob Marrett Tyler 



HABITS 



The golden-winged warbler is one of the daintiest among this 

 group of gay-colored little birds. Its plumage is immaculate white 

 below and delicate pearl-gray on the upper parts, the crown and wings 

 sparkle with golden yellow, and on the throat and cheeks is a broad 

 splash of jet black. 



It is only within comparatively recent years that we have become 

 well acquainted with the goldenwing : the older ornithologists, Wilson, 

 Audubon, and Nuttall, knew it only as a rather uncommon migrant, 

 drifting through from the south, and they had no idea where it bred. 

 At a much later date J. A. Allen (1870) says of it: "This beautiful 

 warbler has been taken, so far as I can learn, but few times in the 

 western part of the State ; it seems to be more common in the eastern, 

 where it breeds." He cites the first record of the finding of a nest in 

 the State in 1869. There is, however, an earlier record of its nesting. 

 Dr. Brewer (1874) states: "Dr. Samuel Cabot was the first naturalist 

 to meet with the nest and eggs of this bird. This was in May, 1837, in 

 Greenbrier County, Va," 



William Brewster (1906), speaking of the bird in 1874, when he 

 first found it in eastern Massachusetts, says : "If the species inhabited 



