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Sussex Counties, September 28 (average, September 15). Mary- 

 land — Baltimore County, September 24. District of Columbia — 

 Washington, October 4 (average of 8 years, September 19). West 

 Virginia — French Creek, October 7. Virginia — Lawrenceville, Octo- 

 ber 19. North Carolina — ^Waynesville, September 29. Georgia — 

 Macon, October 12. Alabama — ^Leighton, October 12. Florida — 

 Alachua County, October 27; Fowey Eocks, November 2. 



Early dates of fall arrival are: California — Mecca, August 17 (only 

 record for State. Oklahoma — Tulsa County, August 9. Texas — 

 Cove, August 29. Wisconsin — Kacine, August 9. Ohio — Buckeye 

 Lake, August 27 (average, September 1). Illinois — La Grange, Au- 

 gust 18 ; average for Chicago region, September 3. Tennessee — Eliza- 

 bethton, August 23. Mississippi — Bay St. Louis, July 4. Louisiana — 

 Mandeville, August 18. New York — New York City, August 4. 

 South Carolina — Mount Pleasant, July 13. Florida — Pensacola, 

 July 13; Old Town, July 23; Fort Myers, August 4. Bermuda — 

 September 4. Cuba — Habana, August 10. Jamaica — Trelawney, 

 September 5. Dominican Kepublic — Puerto Plata, August 12. 

 Puerto Eico — Mona Island, August 18. Antigua — September 19. 

 Dominica — September 25. Tamaulipas — Eio Sabinas, August 5. 

 Guatemala — Peten, August 11. Honduras — Lancetilla, August 24. 

 Nicaragua — Escondido Eiver, October 23. Costa Eica — El Hogar, 

 August 28. Panama — Cricamola, August 24. 



Egg dates. — Connecticut : 43 records. May 7 to June 6 ; 25 records, 

 May 12 to 25, indicating the height of the season. 



New Jersey: 26 records, May 11 to June 24; 21 records, May 17 to 

 22. 



North Carolina : 10 records, April 2 to May 14. 



Pennsylvania : 26 records, May 6 to June 6 ; 13 records. May 11 to 

 17 (Harris). 



OPORORNIS FORMOSUS (Wilson) 



KENTUCKY WARBLER 



Plate 62 



HABITS 



Wilson (1832) discovered this handsome warbler and named it for 

 the State in which he found it most abundant. The name is not in- 

 appropriate, for Kentucky is not far from the center of its abundance 

 in the breeding season. Its summer range covers most of the eastern 

 half of the United States, chiefly in the Mississippi Valley, but it 

 extends northward to southern Minnesota, southern Ontario, Ohio, 

 and Pennsylvania, and southward to the Gulf States. Eastward, it 

 breeds locally from the lower Hudson Valley, New York, to North 



