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GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER 



Fall Migration. — A fall migrant has been seen at New Orleans, 

 La., as early as July 23, 1898, and one v^as taken on the northern 

 coast of South America, September 6, showing that the Golden-winged 

 Warbler is among the early migrants. The last ones seen were noted 

 at Lanesboro, Minn., September 8, 1889; Livonia, Mich., September 

 21, 1891 ; Chicago, 111., September 25, 1895; Englewood, N. J., 

 September 2, 1886; French Creek, W. Va., September 15, 1892; 

 Chester County, S. C, September 22, 1887, and New Orleans, La., 

 September 21, 1897. 



The Bird and its Haunts. — This beautiful Warbler is by no 

 means a rare bird throughout the greater part of its breeding range 

 and in some localities is abundant, nevertheless it is usually sufficiently 

 uncommon as a transient spring migrant to make its appearance 

 worthy of special comment in our note-books. Students of the fall 

 migration, however, will some years find it an abundant August 

 migrant. 



The complex and as yet not clearly understood relations exist- 

 ing between this species, the Blue-winged Warbler and the inter- 

 mediate forms known as Brewster's and Lawrence's Warblers make, 

 as has been said under the Blue-wing, a study of their nesting habits, 

 particularly in that region where the range of this species overlaps 

 that of the Blue-wing, a matter of unusual interest. 



About Cambridge, Mass., Brewster^ writes that the Golden-wing 

 "frequents deciduous woods and thickets, preferring to all other 

 places springy runs shaded by gray birches, old pastures growing up 

 to birches and wild apple trees, and dry hillsides covered with a 

 young sprout growth of oak, hickory or maple. As a rule it shuns 

 evergreen trees, but at its seasons of migration I have occasionally 

 seen it feeding, with Warblers of other species, in the tops of large 

 white pines." 



