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(average of 13 years, August 12) . Virginia— Fort Belvoir (10 miles 

 south of Alexandria) , August 16. North Carolina— Raleigh, July 21 

 ( average of 7 years, August 3) . South Carolina— Clarendon County, 

 July 7. Georgia— Athens, August 18. Alabama — Greensboro, 

 August 25. Florida — Pensacola, August 19, Boca Chica Key, August 

 26. Cuba— Cienfuegos, July 8 and August 20; Batabano, Habana, 

 August 20. Jamaica — August 5. Puerto Rico — Mona Island, 

 August 18. Barbuda — August 25. Senora — Bernardina River, Sep- 

 tember 4. Guatemala — Sierra Cuchumatanes, September 15. Nica- 

 ragua — near Bluefields, September 19. Costa Rica — base of Volcan 

 Turialba, August 12. El Salvador — Lake Olomega, August 31. 

 Panama — east coast of Panama, September 18. Colombia — Santa 

 Marta region, September 8. Venezuela — Tucacas, Estado Falcon, 

 October 19. French Guiana — Cayenne, October 14. 



Egg dates. — Alaska : 5 records, May 29 to June 20. 



British Columbia : 5 records, June 5 to 27. 



Maine : 30 records. May 28 to June 13 ; 23 records. May 30 to June 6, 

 indicating the height of the season. 



Pennsylvania: 16 records. May 25 to June 22; 11 records, May 31 

 to June 7. 



Quebec : 8 records, May 22 to June 27 ; 5 records, May 26 to June 

 1 (Harris). 



SEIURUS NOVEBORACENSIS NOTABILIS Ridgway 

 GRINNELL'S SMALL-BILLED WATERTHRUSH 

 HABITS 



This northwestern race is described by Ridgway (1902) as similar 

 to the eastern race, but "larger, especially the bill ; coloration of upper 

 parts less olive (more grayish sooty), that of under parts less yellow- 

 ish usually white, with little if any yellow tinge. Young much darker 

 above than that of S. n. novehoracensis, the feathers entirely duslry 

 (except the buffy tip), instead of olive with a subterminal bar of 

 dusky." He gives as its range — • 



western North America ; breeding from Minnesota (north of Red Wing), western 

 Nebraska (Sioux County), and probably the more northern Rocky Mountain 

 districts of the United States to Alaska (whole of wooded districts), and East 

 Cape, Siberia ; southward during migration throughout western United States 

 (including Mississippi Valley), more rarely through Atlantic coast States (New 

 Jersey, District of Columbia, Virginia, South Carolina, Florida, etc.), to the 

 Bahamas (New Providence Island, February), Cuba (Santiago, November 18), 

 island of Old Providence, Caribbean Sea, Cozumel Island, Yucatan, through 

 Mexico and Central America to Colombia (Chirua, ijrovince of Santa Marta, 

 February), and to Cape St. Lucas. 



Dr. Nelson (1887) says of its range in northern Alaska: "In the 

 wooded interior, as at the Yukon mouth, it is abundant, and, in fact, 



