AMERICAN WARBLERS. 



Migration and Breeding Range. The Eed-polled 

 Warblers breed in the northern interior of Xorth America as 

 far as Great Slave Lake. On their way south in Autumn 

 the}' show a tendency to approach the ^Vtlantic coast, and 

 thus a few stragglers may be found as far north as Massa- 

 chusetts during some seasons, the time of their occurrence be- 

 ing from the middle of September until the middle of October. 

 It is probable, however, that not all of the individuals that vis- 

 it Florida go by the way of the Atlantic States, for I found a 

 few at Sandford as early as Octol^er 1, 1887, and they were 

 not common until the middle of that month, Init the first to 

 arrive probably came directly south thi'ough tlie interior of 

 the United States. On Xovember 16, 1900 I found them at 

 Xew Kiver, Xorth Carohna, and from this point southward 

 into Florida, in which state I have always found them com- 

 mon, in suitable situations, wherever I have been, even as far 

 south as Key West. I have also found tliem al^undant all 

 over the Bahamas, but do not find that I have ever seen a 

 specimen in Jamaica, although it is recorded from that island 

 and others of the Greater Antilles. It is also given as win- 

 tering in Mexico and South America. 



I found it common during the northward migration on 

 Cayman Brae the last week in March, 1888, but some remain 

 on the Bahamas as late as the last of April. On their way 

 north the Red-polls, even those which winter in Florida and 

 the Bahamas, pass directly to their breeding grounds through 

 the interior of the United States, thus none are ever seen in 

 Xew England in spring. 



