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City, September 21. Kentucky — Versailles, October 2. Tennes- 

 see — Athens, September 22 (average of 6 years, August 24). Arkan- 

 sas — Rogers, October 1. Mississippi — Edwards, October 21. Louisi- 

 ana — New Orleans, October 10. Nova Scotia — Sable Island, Sep- 

 tember 28. Massachusetts — Lexington, September 30. Rhode 

 Island — Kingston, November 8. Connecticut — Hartford, September 

 18. New York — Massapequa, September 27. New Jersey — Long 

 Beach, September 8. Pennsylvania — McKeesport, October 19; Ber- 

 wyn, September 21 (average of 14 years, August 31). Maryland — 

 Gibson Island, October 13; Charles County, September 21. District 

 of Columbia — September 14 (average of 5 years, August 27). West 

 Virginia — Bluefield, September 10. Virginia — Richmond, September 

 22; Lexington, September 19. North Carolina — North Wilkesboro, 

 October 27; Raleigh, August 22 (average of 10 years, August 6). 

 South Carolina — Spartanburg, September 26. Georgia — Augusta, 

 September 7. Alabama — Smelley, October 13. Florida — Royal Palm 

 Hammock, October 13; Fort Myers, October 11 (median of 7 years, 

 September 28); Pensacola, September 14 (median of 18 years, August 

 25). Sinaloa — Escuinapa, October 25. 



Egg dates. — Illinois: 12 records, May 13 to June 20; 7 records, 

 May 22 to June 10. 



Kansas: 8 records, June 5 to June 21. 



New York: 4 records, May 29 to June 13. 



South Carolina: 11 records, May 16 to June 6; 6 records, May 24 to 

 May 31. 



Texas, 30 records, April 29 to July 2; 18 records, May 8 to May 30. 



ICTEUUS GRADUACAUDA AUDUBONII Giraud 



Audubon's Black-Headed Oriole 



H4BITS 



Bendire (1895) writes: 



This is one of the sixteen new species of birds described by Mr. J. P. Giraud in 

 the Annals of the New York Lyceum of Natural History, in 1841, from specimens 

 collected in Texas in 1838. Some time afterwards Mr. John H. Clark, the natural- 

 ist attached to the Mexican Boundary Survey, obtained several specimens near 

 Fort Ringgold, Texas. He reported it as not abundant, and its quiet manners and 

 secluded habits prevented it from being very conspicuous. It was most frequently 

 observed by him feeding on the fruit of the hackberry, but whenever approached 

 while thus feeding it always showed signs of uneasiness, and soon after sought 

 refuge in some place of greater concealment. Usually pairs were to be seen keep- 

 ing close together, apparently preferring the thick foliage found on the margins 

 of ponds or on the old bed of the river. They did not communicate with each 

 other by any note, and Mr. Clark was struck by their remarkable silence. Their 

 habits seemed to him very different from those of any other Oriole with which 

 he was acquainted. 



