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that the song of the Yellow Warbler is not the same from be- 

 ginning to end, is longer than the Redstart's, ends less abrupt- 

 ly, and is uttered with less energy. While the more softly 

 o-iven song of the young male Redstrat is more nearly like the 

 lay of the Yellow Warbler, it is mmch shorter and rather more 

 quickly given. 



Migration and Breeding Range. The Redstart breeds 

 all over the United States, at least east of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, and as far north as Alaska and the Magdalin Islands. 

 I have found it more or less common on the Bahamas in dif- 

 ferent years all winter, excepting at Inagua. I have a young 

 male taken at Murrell's Inlet, South Carolina, December ii, 

 1900. It also winters in the West Indies and from Mexico 

 to northern South America. I found a few migrating across 

 the Island of Cayman Brae as early as as April 5, 18S8, and it 

 became common by the twelfth of the month. The general 

 migration across the Bahamas begins about the middle of 

 April, and I have seen specimens at Nassau as late as May 10. 

 A few appear in Massachusetts as early as the last of April, 

 but the greater portion do not arrive until the first week in 

 May. In autumn it leaves for the south by the middle of Sep- 

 tember, but a few may remain until the last of that month. 



