152 Contributions from the Charleston Museum. 



resembles, in the tail markings, certain species in the genera 

 Vermivora and Dendroica. 



In winter the Worm-eating Warbler ranges from the Bahamas. 

 Cuba, and Jamaica, to Mexico and Central America. 



* 250. Vermivora bachmani (Aud.). Bachman's Warbler. 



Bachman's Warbler was discovered by Dr. Bachman "a few 

 miles from Charleston in July, 1833," and named in his honor 

 by Audubon.^ It was lost to science from the time of its discovery 

 in 1833 until the spring of 1886, when a specimen was taken in 

 Louisiana, near Lake Pontchartrain, by Mr. Charles S. Galbraith 

 and recorded by Mr. George N. Lawrence in the Auk.'^ 



Since the rediscovery of this warbler by Mr. Galbraith, the re- 

 cords have multiplied. Mr. Wilham Brewster and Mr. Frank 

 M. Chapman obtained forty-six specimens on the Suwanee 

 River, Florida, in March, 1890. An account of the habits, vari- 

 ations of plumage, etc., was published by Mr. Brewster in the 

 Auk.^ In March, 1892, I collected about fifty specimens at 

 Branford on the Suwanee River, Florida. The first birds were 

 noted on March 14, and the last on April 2.* In 1894 I ob- 

 tained eight specimens in the Wacissa and Aucilla River region 

 of Florida. These records were both published in the Auk.^ 

 Although I recorded it as a migrant, I now believe that it breeds 

 sparingly at one locality near the village of Waukeenah. 



On May 15, 1901, I rediscovered this species in South Carolina, 

 the specimen being taken near Mount Pleasant, and I quote the 

 following account of the capture from the Awfc;* 



I am pleased to announce the capture of an adult male of this interesting war- 

 bler, by myself, near the village of Mount Pleasant, S. C, on the morning of May 

 15, 1901. I heard the song of what I was almost sure was a Parula Warbler sing- 

 ing lazily, and out of mere curiosity I went to locate the singer. I found the singer 

 near the top of a sweet gum, but was unable to identify him positively as the morn- 

 ing was dark and cloudy. He flew from his perch to the low bushes, which formed 

 the dense undergrowth, and was so restless and active that I could scarcely follow 

 him except by the incessant song which he uttered at the rate of fifteen times 

 a minute. At last I had a plain view of him as he sat upon a dead pine twig with 

 his breast towards me, when I realized that it was the bird I had been looking for 

 in this State for eighteen years. There was no mistake, as it was not the first 

 Bachman's Warbler I had ever seen or shot. I watched the bird closely for thir- 

 teen minutes as I was sure his mate was setting or building a nest near at hand, 

 as he kept singing in one locahty and did not wander far off, but the temptation 

 was too great to lose such a rare prize and I fired and killed the first Bachman's 

 Warbler which has ever been taken in this State since Dr. Bachman took the type 



1 Birds of America, II, 93. « IV, 1887, 35-37. » VIII, 1891, 149-157. 



* See Auk. X, 1893, 338. ' xil, 1895, 367. « XVIII, 1901, 274-275. 



