362 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Genus Icteria Viellot. 



319. (683). Idcria vireiis (lyinn.). Yellow-breasted Chat. 



The Yellow-breasted Chat is the largest species of Warbler 

 found in Iowa. It is a common summer resident as far north as 

 the center of the state, abundant in the southeastern part, and 

 rather rare in most localities in northern Iowa. Dr. Hatch states 

 that the species rarely passes beyond the lower tier of counties of 

 Minnesota (Birds of Minn., 1892, p. 400). The Chat is a noi.sy 

 inhabitant of thickets and partly cleared woodland, where the 

 nest is built in tangled bushes a few feet from the ground. Mor- 

 ton E. Peck states that the species was once very common in 

 Blackhawk county, but now becoming scarce owing to the close 

 pasturing of the woods and consequent breaking up of the favor- 

 ite breeding sites. S. B. Watson notes the same condition in Des 

 Moines county. I never observed the species in Winnebago or 

 Hancock counties, but have a specimen in my collection taken in 

 Cerro Gordo county by J. E. Law, May 30, 1891. W. H. Binga- 

 man notes it as a common summer resident, nesting, in Kossuth 

 county, while Dr. Rich reports it as an uncommon summer resi- 

 dent in Woodbury county. 



Genus Wilsonia Bonaparte. 



320. (684). Wilsonia mitrata (Gmel.). Hooded Warbler. 



The Hooded Warbler is a southern species, of rare occurrence 

 in southern Iowa. Its range and habits are much the same as 

 those of the Kentucky Warbler. 



County records: Blackhawk — "I have observed it once at Ea 

 Porte City, which is the most northerly record of its occurrence 

 west of the Mississippi" (Peck). Des Moines— "A single speci- 

 men taken near BurHngton by Paul Bartsch, May 25, 1892" (Iowa 

 Orn., i, 2, 1895, p. 28). Jackson — "I have only one record of this 

 species, the first of June, the present season" (Giddings, Iowa 

 Orn., iii, i, 1897, p. 9). "The only specimen I have is a male, 

 shot here in the breeding season; the female was seen at the same 

 time" (Berry). Lee — "rare summer resident; not common, and 

 very local' ' (Currier) ; ' 'summer resident ; breeds' ' (Praeger) . Ma- 

 haska — "One taken in May" (Trippe, Proc. Bost. Soc, xv, 1872, 

 p. 235). Poweshiek — "One taken May 18, 1888" (Eynds Jones). 

 Burtis S. Wilson reports it as rare at Rock Island; one record. 



