348 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



University museum, taken at Iowa Citj- and Tiffin (Anderson). 

 Lee — "summer resident, common" (Currier); "rare; breeds" 

 (Praeger). Scott — "rare migrant" (Wilson). Poweshiek — "tol- 

 erably common summer resident" (Kelsey). Pottawattamie — 

 "common migrant; scarce summer resident" (Trostler). Linn — 

 "summer resident" (Bailey, Berry); "not common; nest with two 

 fresh eggs found May 22, 1896" (Keye.s). Scott — "rare migrant" 

 (Wilson). Webster — "occasional" (Somes). Van Buren — "sum- 

 mer resident; common; nesting on ground usually; one nest four 

 inches from ground between four hazel bushes" (W. G. Savage). 

 "In Van Buren county the Blue-winged Warbler arrives about 

 the last week in April and stays throughout the summer; has a 

 low and not very pleasing song; sings often at noon-day when 

 most other birds are hushed and the scorching sun is pouring 

 forth its hottest rays" (W. S. Savage, IowaOrn.,i, i, 1894, p. 11). 



292. (642). Hehninthophila chrysoptera (Linn.). Golden-winged 

 Warbler. 



The Golden-winged Warbler is a rather rare migrant in Iowa, 

 and is reported as breeding in Grundy county. 



County records: Blackhawk — "a regular and uncommon mi- 

 grant in Blackhawk county. It is said to breed in some localities 

 in the state, but I have never found it in any part of Iowa during 

 the nesting season" (Peck). Grundy — "took two sets, three and 

 four eggs, both incubated, in early June, 1898. Both nests were 

 among the grass within four inches of the ground, in a dry willow 

 coulee" (Bingaman). Johnson — "taken at Iowa City and else- 

 where in the state" (Keyes and Williams, Birds of Iowa, p. 152); 

 "at Iowa City the first was reported May 17, 1885" (Cooke, Bird 

 Migr. in Miss. Val., 1884-85, pp. 240-41); two specimens in Uni- 

 versit}^ museum were taken by C. C. Nutting and Loren Akers, 

 May 9, 1887. Shot one male May 6, 1903, and one male May 11, 

 1904, at Iowa City (Anderson). Lee — "scarce migrant" (Praeger); 

 "common migrant" (Currier). Linn — "collected here by Morton 

 K. Peck in spring of 1S96" (Keyes); "shot one female in last of 

 June and saw one a couple of years since feeding a young Cow- 

 bird" (Berr}'). Mahaska — "a single specimen taken in May" 

 (Trippe, Proc. Bost. Soc, xv, 1872, p. 234). Van Buren — "mi- 

 grant, some years very abundant, while others not so plentiful; 



