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ville, October 18. South Carolina — Clemson College, October 29. 

 Georgia — Macon, November 12. 



Dates of fall arrival are : Cuba — Habana, October 2. Guatemala — 

 La Libcrtad, November 10. 



Casual records. — Coues (1874, p. 100) records a specimen, without 

 date, taken "on the upper Missouri" by F. V. Kayden. From the ac- 

 count of the exploring expeditions it seems probable that this speci- 

 men was collected in 1874 in South Dakota. Several individuals are 

 reported to have landed on a steamer in Lake Huron, October 9, 1939, 

 about 50 miles south of Detour, Mich. A specimen was collected on 

 August 24, 1933, at Cyanthanis, Cochise County, Ariz., about 15 miles 

 east of Pearce. A specimen was collected on April 14, 1909, at 

 Staniard Creek, Andros Island, Bahamas. 



Egg dates. — Connecticut : 22 records. May 17 to June 13 ; 16 records. 

 May 30 to June 10. 



Florida: 16 records, April 18 to July 9; 8 records, May 4 to 31, 

 indicating the height of the season. 



Georgia : 28 records, March 22 to June 13 ; 14 records, May 7 to 30. 



Texas: 29 records, April 1 to June 14; 15 records. May 14 to 29. 



VIREO GRISEUS MAYNARDI Brewster 



KEY WEST VIREO 



HABITS 



The 1931 Check-list and Howell's "Florida Bird Life" (1932) both 

 imply that this subspecies is confined to the Florida keys, where it 

 seems to be a resident, but Holt and Sutton (1926) record it as breed- 

 ing in extreme southern Florida. And Mr. Eidgway (1904) extends 

 its range northward on the coast of Florida as far as Tarpon Springs 

 and Anastasia Island; he says, in a footnote, that these specimens 

 from the more northern points are not typical of maynardi^ but nearer 

 to that than to the more northern form. 



Mr. Brewster (1887) in naming this race, describes it as "in size 

 and proportions similar to V. crassii'ostris., the bill equally large and 

 stout. Coloring more like that of V. novehoracensis but grayer above, 

 the yellow beneath paler (but of the same greenish or lemon tinge) 

 and equally, if not more, restricted." In other words, the Key West 

 vireo differs from our common white-eyed vireo of the north in having 

 a longer and stouter bill, grayer upper parts, and more restricted, 

 paler yellow sides. The most typical birds are found in the Florida 

 keys and birds in progressive stages of intergradation occur north- 

 ward. 



Alexander Sprunt, Jr., who has spent much time on the keys and 

 elsewhere in southern Florida, has sent me the following notes on it : 



