222 Contributions from the Charleston Museum. 



20. Vermivora rubricapilla (Wils.)- Nashville Warbler. 

 Neither Mr. Loomis nor I have met with this species in the 



State. Dr. Coues^ includes it in his list, but his record requires 

 confirmation, as the Nashville Warbler is known to be very rare 

 in the South Atlantic states. 



This species breeds abundantly in the New England states 

 and northward to the Great Slave Lake region. In winter it 

 ranges southward from the Rio Grande of Texas through east- 

 ern Mexico. 



21. Oporornis Philadelphia (Wils.). Mourning Warbler. 

 Dr. Coues' records the Mourning Warbler for South Carolina 



and says: "Very rare migrant." 



Audubon* states that "my friend the Rev. John Bachman 

 never has seen it in South Carolina." Mr. Loomis writes me 

 that he has never detected it at Chester, and I may add that I 

 have yet to see a bird of this species on the coast. I feel certain 

 that this record by Dr. Coues also requires confirmation. 



The Mourning Warbler breeds from the mountains of West 

 Virginia and Pennsylvania northward to New England and west- 

 ward to Minnesota and Manitoba. Its winter home extends from 

 Central America to Ecuador. 



22. Salpinctes obsoletus (Say). Rock Wren. 



In his account of the Blue-Mountain Warbler {Sylvicola mon- 



tana), Audubon says in Birds of America:* 



No other person has observed the Rocky Mountain Wren in any part of the 

 country eastward of that great chain besides Dr. Bachman, who shot one within 

 a few miles of Charleston. 



Dr. Bachman's account of the wrens that he met with in South 

 Carolina, as mentioned in Audubon's work, is considerably con- 

 fused. That he actually took a specimen of this species is open 

 to question, as no second example has ever been taken in the 

 State, and he doubtless confused it with the House Wren {Trog- 

 lodytes aedon). As the Rocky Mountain Wren was known as the 

 ''Mountain Wren," or "Rock Wren," this is evidently the species 

 to which Audubon refers. 



This species ranges from the Western United States to the Pa- 

 cific Coast. 



iProc. Bost.Soc.Nal. Hist., 1868, 109. = Ibid, 110. ' Birds of 



America, II, 76. * II, 70. 



