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the first recorded instance of the capture of this warbler 
in Alabama.” (1890b). 
““On September 6, last, I took the first specimen of this 
warbler, and the only one that I ever saw. In April of 
1878 three specimens of this rare warbler were met 
with by Mr. N. C. Brown, at Coosada, Elmore county, 
this State, near the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa 
rivers. He secured two of these warblers. The one 
captured by me on September 6, last, is then the third 
specimen taken in this State, and the fourth observed. 
It was doubless migrating, as the locality where it was 
shot could hardly have been the summer habitat of Swain- 
son’s warbler. About eleven o’clock on that day, as I 
was walking along the edge of a stream of water flowing 
from an artesian well, and in a grove of hardwood trees, 
a number of birds drinking and bathing in this stream 
flew up from the water. Among them I observed a 
curious looking little bird that seemed to watch me in- 
tently from the crotch of a sapling where he was seated 
motionless and silent. Without a moment’s hesitation I 
shot the bird, which proved to be Swainson’s warbler.” 
(1891b). 
No. 652. Female-juv. Greensboro. Sept. 6, 1890. W.C. Avery. 
165. HELMITHEROS VERMIVORUS( Gmelin). 
WorM-EATING WARBLER. 
“Observed during the autumn migrations only. The 
first was cbserved last year on August 9, the last on Sep- 
tember 19. It cannot be called a common bird, as during 
the period between these two dates, though I made almost 
daily observations, I never met, on one day, with more 
than three specimens of this warbler.” (1891b). 
No. 198. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 5, 1889. W. C. Avery. 
No. 213. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 18, 1889. W. C. Avery. 
No. 600. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 23, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 609. Female. Greensboro. Aug. 25, i890. W. C. Avery. 
No. 610. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 25, 1890. W. C. Avery. 
166. VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA (Linnezus). 
GOLDEN-WINGED WABRLER. 
“Observed. like the preceding species, only during the 
autumn. First seen this year on August 11, last on 
October 4. Not common.” (1891b). 
