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District of Columbia — Washington, November 11. West Virginia — 

 Bluefield, October 8. Virginia — Sweet Briar, October 11. South 

 Carolina — Clemson College, October 11. Georgia — Athens, October 

 26. Florida — Fort Myers, November 13. Bahamas — Watling Is- 

 land, October 5. Cuba — Habana, October 30. 



Early dates of fall arrival are: Bahamas — Inagua, September 17. 

 Cuba — Habana, August 28. Tamaulipas — Matamoros, August 21. 

 Honduras — Laucetilla, September 1. Guatemala — Pahajachel, Au- 

 gust 26. Nicaragua — Escondido River, September 10. Costa Rica — 

 Carrillo, August 31. Panama — Tapia, August 29. Colombia — Bu- 

 ritaca, September 18. 



Only two recovery records for banded red-eyed vireos are available. 

 One banded at Lansing, Mich., on July 26, 1931, was found dead on 

 July 30, 1931, about 125 miles away at Harbor Beach, Mich. An- 

 other banded at Norristown, Pa., on August 26, 1932, was found dead 

 on June 7, 1938, about 1% miles from the place of banding. 



Casual records. — A specimen from Greenland was received in Co- 

 penhagen in 1844. There are two specimen records from California : 

 San Diego, October 6, 1914, and Los Angeles, October 10, 1931; and 

 two from Arizona : Huachuca Mountains, May 20, 1895, and Coyote 

 Range, September 3, 1934. 



Egg dates. — Massachusetts : 54 records, May 25 to July 20 ; 39 rec- 

 ords, June 1 to 15, indicating the height of the season. 



Minnesota : 12 records, June 3 to July 2 ; 9 records, June 3 to 11. 



New York: 65 records, May 10 to June 30; 40 records, June 1 to 

 June 11. 



Nova Scotia : 6 records, June 18 to August 16 ; 3 records, June 26 to 

 July 5. 



Virginia : 6 records. May 17 to June 24 ; 3 records. May 28 to June 5. 



VIREO PHILADELPHICUS (Cassin) 



PHILADELPHIA VIREO 



HABITS 



This vireo was described and named by John Cassin (1851) from 

 a specimen collected in September 1842 in some woods near Philadel- 

 phia. For a number of years thereafter very little was known about 

 it, though Thure Kumlien wrote to Dr. Brewer (Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway, 1874) that he had been familiar with the bird in Dane 

 County, Wis., since 1849, and had "collected it every year since that 

 period, finding it both in the spring and fall." 



William Brewster (1880) was the first to give us any considerable 

 account of the distribution and habits of the Philadelphia vireo, with 

 special reference to its occurrence in New England, as observed by him 



