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Notes on tKe Warklcrs Found in Maine. 



(Continued from p. 18.) 

 Contributions ^o tKe Life History of the Black and White Warbler. 



Mniotilta van' a (I^inii.). 



Ry Everett E. Johnson. 

 Geogk.vphical Distribution. — This species winters in South- 

 ern Florida and vSouthern Texas, south through Mexico and Cen- 

 tral America to Northern South America. In migration it is more 



NEST AND EGOS OF BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER. 



or less common in Eastern North America, west to the Rocky 

 Mountains. It breeds from the southern boundary of the Carolinian 

 life zone, ifrom North Carolina to Kansas, north to New Brunswick, 

 Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, to the upper Mackenzie Valley, 

 west regularly to central South Dakota, central Kansas and central 

 Texas and rarely in Colorado and California. 



The Black and White Warbler is an early migrant, arriving in 

 the vicinity of Lewiston about the first week in May. April 30th is 



