50 BULLETIN No. 35 



NORTHERMOST RANGE OF MANY Southern species and the ex- 

 tent of the Southern range of many Northern species; hence 

 the mentioned locaUty being of an Alleghanian X CaroHnian 

 nature, accounts for the protracted presence of these two 

 Southern forms, and is probably the northermost point of their 

 regular range, inasmuch as the chain of the Blue Ridge Moun- 

 tains stretches from North to South, only a few miles from this 

 locality, and these birds no doubt arrive from a Southeasterly 

 direction and find their futher progress toward West and North 

 barred by the mountain ranges, 



John W. Daniel, Jr., Lynchburg, Fa. 



HELMINTHOPHILA PINUS IN WISCONSIN. 



The Blue-winged Warbler has always been considered a 

 very rare bird in Wisconsin, as indeed it probably is, and so it 

 was with a greal deal of pleasure that I found myself on July 

 II, 1897, while pushing my way through the edge of a deep 

 second growth oak wood, with an entire family of them be- 

 fore me — parents and four or five young. They were busy 

 feeding among the lower branches of the small, thickly growing 

 young oaks, remaining in company like a family of young Red- 

 starts and gathering their food entirely from the under sides of 

 the leaves, hanging head downward a large share of the time; 

 full fledged at this early date and only showing his immaturity 

 by the indistinctness of the orbital stripe, the paler yellow 

 crown and the general pin-feathered condition of the post- 

 juvenile moult. 



They had without doubt been reared in this very wood 

 and it was with considerable eagerness that 1 watched for their 

 possible arrival the following spring, but although 1 fairly 

 iiaunted these and nearby woods the entire season, but one was 

 noted— a fine male, killed before I realized what it was, while 

 collecting Warblers on May 22. 



I could not however give them up and the spring of 1899 

 found me early in these same woods — where on May 14 I came 

 upon a Blue-wing and at the same instant saw the tell-tale grass 



