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have an evident increase of the several exceedingly desirable species 

 referred to above, to compensate in a measure for the loss of this 

 one, and possibly with a rigid enforcement of that wise statute, pro- 

 hibiting spring shooting, the few surviving ones may be spared to 

 multipl}^ and replenish the earth, a consummation devoutly to be 

 wished. 



Notes on tKe Warblers Found in Maine. 



(Continued from Vol. VI, p. 72.) 

 ConlribuMons to the Life History of tKe Mourning Warbler. 



Geothlypis Philadelphia (Wils.). 

 By J. Mkrton Swain. 



Geographical Distribution — Migration Range. — Acci- 

 dental in So. Carolina, rare in I^ouisiana, but common in Texas. 

 Texas seems to be the point where this species enters and leaves the 

 United vStates. From thence the lines of migration entend north to 

 Manitoba and northeast along the west side of the Alleghenies to 

 New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the Magdalen Islands. 



Brep:ding Range. — Not common in northern Minnesota and 

 the Red River Valley; rarely in As.sinboin. Is found breeding, 

 but not common, in Michigan, Central Ontario, northern New York, 

 Vermont and New Hampshire, and in the Catskill Mountains and 

 Berkshire Hills, Mass. Is locally common in northern Maine and 

 ea.st to New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. 

 Has been known to breed in the mountains of Pennsylvania and 

 West Virginia. 



Winter Range. — It is not an uncommon winter resident in 

 Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and a few winter in P^cuador. It 

 usually frequents the higher altitudes in winter in the tropics. It is 

 one of the latest migrants to reach the United States, as it lingers 

 late in South America. 



The Mourning Warbler seems to be one of the least known of 

 this interesting family that breed in our vState. The records of its 



