Wayne: Birds of South Carolina. 169 



by Mr. J. Hughes Samuel and recorded by him in the Auk.^ 

 This bird is the only one which has been taken outside the United 

 States during the migrations. 



The migration of this species in spring is evidently to the west- 

 ward of the Alleghanies, for I have never detected it here at that 

 season, and St. Helena Island must be considered the most 

 northerly limit of its range, whence it must migrate in a north- 

 westwardly direction in order to avoid the higher mountains in 

 North Carolina. In autumn it has been taken in Virginia, and in 

 Chester and Charleston counties, South Carolina, which proves 

 that its route of migration is different at that season. 



Kirtland's Warbler winters in the Bahamas. 



265. Dendroica vigorsii (Aud.). Pine Warbler. 



The Pine Warbler is a permanent resident and breeds very 

 abundantly along the coast in pine woods. This species is, 

 however, more abundant during late autumn and winter than in 

 the breeding season, because of the addition of numbers of birds 

 that breed far to the northward of this state and make it their 

 winter home. True to its name, the Pine Warbler rarely leaves 

 the pine forest except during brief intervals in the autumn 

 months to feed upon the berries of the dogwood tree. 



Audubon says in Birds of America: - 



The Pine-creeping Warbler constructs its nest of different materials, nay even 

 makes it of a different form, in the southern and eastern States. In the Caro- 

 linas, for instance, it is usually placed among the dangling fibres of the Spanish 

 moss, with less workmanship and less care than in the Jerseys, the State of New 

 York, or that of Maine. 



The statement that the nest is "usually placed among the 

 dangling fibres of the Spanish moss ' ' is certainly erroneous as it 

 is invariably built in pine trees, at or very near the extremity of a 

 limb, among the ' ' needles. ' ' 



The breeding season is from March to June. I have taken eggs 

 containing small embryos as early as March 28, but the majority 

 of the birds do not have full complements of eggs before April 4-10. 



Much also depends upon the season. In 1895 the season was 

 very backward and the first nest, which contained four fresh eggs, 

 was not found until April 24, while another nest, with four eggs, 

 was taken the following day. 



The nest is always built on the horizontal branch of a pine 



1 XVII, 1900, 391. » II, 37-38. 



