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OcToBER 31, 1918 Vou. VI, pp. 93-94 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW RACE OF THE BLACK-THROATED GREEN 
WOOD WARBLER. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
Mr. ARTHUR T. WayYNE has lately called my attention to a 
form of the black-throated green wood warbler, which he finds 
breeding locally in certain primeval swamps in the lowlands of 
South Carolina, near Mount Pleasant, in Berkeley County. 
He has sent me seven males for comparison with Northern 
material, and this series proves to represent a form easily dis- 
tinguished from true Dendroica virens (Gmel.). I take great 
pleasure in naming it after the keen ornithologist and excellent 
observer and collector who discovered it, and who noticed its 
peculiarities even without sufficient material with which to 
compare it. 
Mr. Wayne has not yet taken the eggs of this bird, but has 
seen two females in the act of nest-building. The breeding 
Season is early, — the middle of April, — and specimens have 
been shot near Mount Pleasant as early as March 27, — a date 
when true D. virens is still in winter quarters in Mexico or 
Central America. It would thus seem not unlikely that the 
South Carolina form is resident and non-migratory, and I hope 
Mr. Wayne will be able to prove whether or not this is so. I 
have examined all our winter specimens from Mexico and 
