KENTUCKY WARBLER 



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records of the latest observations are at Berwyn, Pa., September 4, 

 1896; Beaver, Pa., September 13, 1888; Cadiz, Ohio, September 23, 

 1900; Eubank, Ky., September 6, 1888; Raleigh, N. C, September 

 12, 1894; New Orleans, La., October 19, 1895. 



Spring Migration. — 



PIvACE 



Tarpon Springs. Fla. . , 

 Atlanta, Ga. ( near) . . . 

 Asheville, N. C. (near) 



Raleigh, N. C 



Washington, D. C 



Beaver, Pa 



Waynesburg, Pa 



Berwyn, Pa 



New Orleans, La , 



Helena, Ark 



Eubank, Ky 



St. Louis, Mo 



Brookville, Ind 



Keokuk, la 



San Antonio, Texas . . , 



Northern Texas 



Onaga, Kan 



No. of 

 years' 

 record 



Average date of 

 spring arrival 



April 7 

 April 21 

 May I 

 May 2 

 May I 



Earliest date of 

 spring arrival 



April 6, 1886 

 April I, 1896 

 April 18, 1894 



April 30, 190S 

 April 30, 1902 

 IMay I, 1892 

 May 3, 1900 

 March 30, 1895 

 April IS, 1896 

 April IS, 1893 

 April 21, 1886 

 April 20, 1896 

 April 26, 1898 

 April 8, 1890 



April 26, 1896 



The Bird and its Haunts. — My own experience with this Warbler, 

 which in habits suggests both the Yellow-throat (trichas) and Oven- 

 bird, is confined to the west side of the Hudson River, at Englewood, 

 N. J. Here, on the western slope of the Palisades, in moist woods 

 with a fairly heavy undergrowth, it is not uncommon, though it is 

 virtually unknown in the apparently favorable woods growing in the 

 valleys to the west. During the nesting season, the loud, musical song 

 of the male readily betrays his whereabouts, and one may watch it 

 with ease as it frequently utters its notes from a perch at a height of 

 twenty feet or thereabouts, descending at intervals to walk about on 

 the ground and search for food. 



At Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Burns (]\IS.) writes: "The Kentucky 

 Warbler is usually one of our commonest summer residents, though 

 apt to be rather irregular in abundance now and then. During the 

 season of 1897, it became abundant, falling off to about half the 

 number the following year. It is here an inhabitant of the overgrown 

 clearings, swampy thickets, and the borders of woodland ; a bird of 

 the south, loving the luxuriant undergrowths of spicewood, ferns, 

 mandrake, skunk cabbage, and other shade-loving plants of rank 

 growth. 



