Wayne: Birds of South Carolina. 167 



Occasional specimens have the back spotted with black. An 

 adult male, taken August 29, 1889, near Charleston, has the en- 

 tire back very heavily spotted beneath the surface with black. 

 This specimen was recorded by the writer in the Auk ^ and is 

 still in my collection. Since this specimen was recorded I have 

 taken four or five others which have the back spotted with 

 black. 



The Yellow-throated Warbler winters from the coast of South 

 Carolina southward to Cuba, Jamaica, Hayti, and Porto Rico. 



^263. Dendroica virens (Gmel.). Black-throated Green 

 Warbler. 



This is a regular transient visitant in spring but is not observed 

 in the fall. It arrives with great regularity and I mention 

 two dates upon which the first birds were secured, namely— 

 March 26, 1890, Yemassee; and March 27, 1900, Mount Pleasant.^ 

 It is not common until the middle of April, and its passage through 

 the coast region requires so long a time that one not acquainted 

 with the migration of birds might readily beUeve that it bred 

 here. I have heard numbers singing as late as May 26. 



On May 21, 1904, these birds were common in a great deciduous 

 swamp on the plantation of Mr. B. B. Furman in Christ Church 

 Parish, where they were singing constantly from the tops of the 

 tallest trees, some of them being scarcely visible from the ground 

 at such a height. I have always found this species a very high- 

 ranging bird; in fact it ranges higher than any Eastern North 

 American warbler with which I am acquainted. A few birds re- 

 main on the coast until the first day of June, but these are females. 



That this species should remain on the coast until June and not 

 breed is very surprising, as it has been found breeding on the 

 island of Grand Manan, New Brunswick, on the 17th of June. 



Mr. Leverett M. Loomis^ found this species breeding in the 

 mountains of Pickens county and also at Caesar's Head, Green- 

 ville county. It winters in the West Indies and Panama. 



264. Dendroica kirtlandii Baird. Kirtland's Warbler. 

 Until recently (1903), all ornithologists considered this species 

 the rarest of the warblers. There are three records for this 



1 VII, 1890. 97. 



2 Since the abo 

 )10 — his earliest 



3 See Auk, VII, 1890, 128, and VIII, 1891, 331. 



2 Since the above was written Mr. Wayne found this species common on March 22, 

 1910 — his earliest record. — Ed. 



