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There are a considerable number of vireos of the general color 

 pattern of the red-eye distributed widely in the warmer portions of the 

 New World that it has been proposed to treat as geographic races of 

 one species. Thongh it may develop that this is true, it is my own 

 feeling that the evidence is not as yet conclusive, so that for the pres- 

 ent I prefer to recognize olivaceus as a species distinct from the others. 

 The question is one that is complicated by the fact that even the forms 

 that breed in the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America are 

 migratory, retiring to the south after nesting, so that the actual breed- 

 ing ranges of some yet remain to be definitely ascertained. 



Family COMPSOTHLYPIDAE 



MNIOTILTA VARIA (Linnaeus) : Black and White Warbler 



Specimens were obtained as follows: Brandenburg, April 28; 

 Coopersville, June 6 (adult and one young fully grown) ; Rocky- 

 branch, June 8 ; Bardstown, May 9, 1885 (taken by C. W. Beckham) ; 

 Mount Vernon, October 1; Log Mountain, near Middlesboro, Sep- 

 tember 24 ; 4,000 feet elevation on Black Mountain, near Lynch, June 

 29 (adult and fully grown young). The last one seen in fall was 

 recorded at Mount Vernon on October 3. 



PROTONOTARIA CITREA (Boddaert) : Prothonotary Warbler 



In the northwestern section of the State one was taken 3 miles east 

 of Waverly on May 9. Near Uniontown the birds seemed fairly com- 

 mon, as three were seen and one was collected on May 13. In the 

 cypress swamps 4 miles southwest of Hickman specimens were shot 

 •on May 20 and 27, including one young bird just from the nest in the 

 curious, grayish, juvenile plumage. 



HELMITHEROS VERMIVORUS (Gmelin) : Worm-eating Warbler 



An immature male was taken at 2,000 feet elevation on Log Moun- 

 tain, 8 miles west of Middlesboro, on September 27. 



VERMIVORA PEREGRINA (Wilson) : Tennessee Warbler 



In the spring migration specimens were shot near Waverly on May 

 6 and near Uniontown on May 10. In fall they were common over the 

 slopes of Log Mountain from September 19 to 23 (specimens taken 

 on each of these dates), and one was collected at South Carrollton on 

 October 26. At Bardstown, Nelson County, specimens were taken on 

 September 13 and 15, 1880, and September 18, 1885, by C. W. Beckham. 



VERMIVORA RUFICAPILLA RUFICAPILLA (Wilson) : Nashville Warbler 



An adult male was shot a mile east of Waverly on May 11. An 

 older record is that of a male taken at Bardstown on April 28, 1877, 

 by C. W. Beckham. 



