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quently observing it in Teni-kssee and Louisiana, we 

 do not know that he evei-rffet'with it east of the Alle- 

 ghanies. In 1832 Nutt'al Quotes Wilson, and adds"The 

 species is scarely known to the east of North Caro- 

 lina." Michener's List of Land Birds of Chester 

 County, Penna, {Agricultnral Ornithologv, 186^) "A 

 Southern species and rather scarce," Krider (Forty 

 Years Field Notes, i8y8)"Con^\d(:iYed rare, 1 have found 

 it in swampy woods. New Jersey, and mountains 

 of Pennsylvania." From 1875 to 1878 we hear of it 

 breeding locally, in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania and Ohio, Coues, (1878) "Eastern Province of 

 the United States, especially in the Valley of the Miss- 

 issippi, north to Connecticut Valley, west to Kansas 

 and the Indian Territory." Maynard (1879) "Quite 

 rare in the Eastern of the Middle States and does not 

 occur in New England at all. The great stronghold 

 appears to be in the West, along the Mississippi river, 

 I have not met with it." During the early '80 's the 

 advance was wonderfully rapid; indeed Dr. Coues had 

 confidently predicted its occurrence in New England 

 sooner or later, long ago; while Chamberlain alone ap- 

 pears to have had no suspicion of it, as he says (1891) 

 "it is most abLinJant along the Mississippi Valley and 

 has been seen but rarely east of the AUeghanies." 

 Locally, Rhoades mentions it breeding in Chester 

 county in 1878 (Bulletin Nuttal Ornithological Club, 

 Vol. iy,p. 2^4) and regarded it as one of the common- 

 est representatives of its family. Eight years latei , 

 Jackson reports it a "frequent summer resident, in 

 some localities may almost be said to be common" 

 {Ornithologist and Oologist .l/'oLXII . p.4^) ,:\x\d in 1889, 

 Norris found it breeding abundantly {Ibid, Vol . XIl^. 

 p. 104). in this section the increase was enormous up 

 to 1897, when the high water mark was reached and 

 the Kentucky appeared to be aboLit seventh in point of 

 numbers, perhaps more numerous here than any other 



