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Some late dates of fall departure are : British Columbia — Okanagan 

 Landing, September 8. Alberta — Camrose, September 14. Mon- 

 tana — Bozeman, September 26. Wyoming — Laramie, September 24. 

 Saskatchewan — Eastend, September 18. North Dakota — Fargo, Oc- 

 tober 17. South Dakota — Sioux Falls, October 10. Nebraska — ^Lin- 

 coln, October 3. Kansas — Clearwater, October 6. Oklahoma — Tulsa, 

 October 17. Manitoba — Aweme, October 1. Minnesota — Minne- 

 apolis, October 5. Iowa — Sioux City, October 1. Missouri — Kansas 

 City, October 12. Wisconsin — Racine, October 10. Illinois — Lake 

 Forest, October 14. Michigan — Grand Rapids, October 30. On- 

 tario — Ottawa, October 7. Ohio — Columbus, October 28. Tennes- 

 see — Nashville, October 18. Quebec — Montreal, October 3. Nova 

 Scotia — Wolfville, October 3. Maine — Portland, October 13. New 

 Hampshire — Concord, October 9. Massachusetts — Boston, Novem- 

 ber 9. New Jersey — Elizabeth, October 28. District of Columbia — 

 Washington, November 13. Virginia — ^Lawrenceville, October 13. 

 North Carolina — Raleigh, October 15. Georgia — Athens, October 13. 

 Some early dates of fall arrival are : Florida — St. Augustine, Sep- 

 tember 25. Mississippi — Bay St. Louis, September 11. Louisiana — 

 New Orleans, August 15. Texas — Brownsville, October 1. Cuba — 

 Habana, October 10. Honduras — Tela, October 25. Nicaragua — 

 Bluefields, October 28. Costa Rica — Guacimo, September 11. Pan- 

 ama — Cocoplum, Boco del Toro, October 24. 



Some interesting notes on the migration of the catbird are found 

 in the recoveries of banded birds, only a few of which can be cited. 

 Three birds banded in Massachusetts were found the following winter 

 in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, respectively. One 

 banded in New York was found two years later at Tela, Honduras. 

 One banded in Wisconsin was found in Kentucky during fall migra- 

 tion, and one from Ohio was taken in Mississippi. A catbird banded 

 at Lansing, Mich., on September 24 was found near Slidell, La., 

 on October 31 of the same year. One banded at St. Petersburg, Fla., 

 in January was found the following June in Westchester County, 

 N. Y. 



Casual records. — The northernmost record for the catbird is a 

 specimen collected at Hazelton, British Columbia, on June 10, 1921. 

 A specimen collected on the Farallon Islands on September 4, 1884, 

 is the only record for California. There are two records for Ne- 

 vada — a specimen from Cave Spring, Esmeralda County, on June 

 18, 1928, and one observed at Alamo, on May 1, 1924 ; also two speci- 

 mens from Arizona — one collected at Springerville on June 7, 1915, and 

 one from Tunitcha Mountains, June 25, 1927. On May 5, 1930, one 

 was observed near Alfalfa, El Paso County, Tex. There is a single 

 record from Haiti, a specimen collected on Tortue Island, on Febru- 

 ary 5, 1917. On March 22, 1932, a specimen was collected at Para- 



