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West Hartford, November 1. New York — New York City, November 

 23. New Jersey — South Mountain Reservation, November 24; Sum- 

 mit, December 18. Pennsylvania — Berwyn, October 30. Maryland — 

 Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge, October 19. District of 

 Columbia — ^^Vashington, November 13 (average of 23 years, October 

 3). West Virginia — Bluefield, October 15. Virginia — Lexington, 

 October 15. North Carolina — Raleigh, October 23. South Caro- 

 lina — Chester, October 29. Georgia — Lybee Light, Savannah, 

 November 11. Alabama — Greensboro, October 19. Florida — 

 Clewiston, November 8. Bahamas — Cay Lobos Light, November 22. 



Early dates of fall arrival are: Texas — Rockport, August 13. 

 Ohio — Buckeye Lake, July 30 (average, August 15). Louisiana — 

 Rigolets, August 9. Mississippi — Gulf coast, August 25. Massachu- 

 setts — Marblehead, August 14. North Carolina — Raleigh, August 5. 

 South Carolina — Summerton, July 7 ; Chester, August 7. Georgia — 

 Athens, August 2. Alabama — Leighton, August 10. Florida — Pensa- 

 cola, August 10; Dry Tortugas Island, August 16. Cuba — Santiago 

 de las Vegas, August 26. Puerto Rico, October 3. Antigua, October 9. 

 Honduras — Tela, October 9. Costa Rica — San Miguel de Desam- 

 parados, November 1. Colombia — Bond, October 4. Venezuela — 

 Paraguana Peninsula, October 22. 



Egg dates. — Massachusetts : 66 records. May 17 to July 1 ; 37 records. 

 May 30 to June 6, indicating the height of the season. 



Michigan: 12 records, May 16 to July 26; 6 records. May 27 to 

 June 14. 



Quebec : 17 records, May 27 to June 21 ; 10 records, June 3 to 10. 



Pennsylvania : 14 records. May 15 to June 3 ; 10 records. May 25 to 

 31 (Harris). 



SEIURUS AUROCAPILLUS FURVIOR Batchelder 

 NEWFOUNDLAND OVENBIRD 



HABITS 



Based on a series of 19 specimens collected in Newfoundland, 

 Charles F. Batchelder (1918) gave the above name to the ovenbirds 

 of that region. He describes the subspecies as follows: "Similar to 

 Seiurus auroca'pillus^ but plumage in general deeper-colored or darker. 

 Tawny of crown browner, less yellowish — 'amber brown', instead of 

 the 'ocliraceous orange' of aurocapillus ; black of sides of crown more 

 extensive and slightly more intense; back, from nape to upper tail 

 coverts, and including scapulars, duskier green; dark markings of 

 breast and sides heavier and blacker ; brown of flanks deeper." 



