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the information regarding the species which I possess up to 

 date. 



" The winter range of this species is chiefly included in the 

 territory extending from Louisiana to northern Florida and 

 eastern North Carolina. The spring migration begins in season 

 so that the first individuals appear near Washington, D. C, 

 in early April, and in Massachusetts about April fifteenth, 

 while by early May the tide of migration has passed onward. 

 The first individuals are seen in southern Maine at dates between 

 April fifteenth and twentieth, while the average date of their 

 first appearance on their breeding grounds near Bangor is 

 April twenty-fourth, the earliest date seen April twenty-third 

 and latest date of arrival May fourth. By the first to the 

 second week of May migration is practically over in the United 

 States, a majority having passed northward while a fair share 

 of the migrating hosts have settled in their summer homes in 

 suitable parts of the State of Maine. As an exceptionally late 

 date for migration Capt. H. L. Spinney tells me he saw ten 

 individuals of this species at Seguin Island, June 7, 1897. 

 They have no chance to nest on this island. 



Though one of the commonest and best known of the War- 

 blers along the Atlantic seaboard during the migration, the 

 breeding range of this species was for a long time vaguely 

 known, and eggs of the species are and will continue to be 

 especial desiderata in collections. Though vague hints that 

 this bird had been found nesting in Maine have appeared in 

 the years gone by, the first really authentic record of the actual 

 taking of a set of their eggs was published by the writer in 

 the Oologist, Feb., 1893, p. 14, and this set of five eggs was 

 taken June 4, 1892. A nest with newly hatched young had 

 been found in the same locality by a friend a few days before, 

 on May 30. During the thirteen years which have elapsed, 

 the sum total of nests of the Yellow Palm Warbler which I 

 have found or seen found is nine in number, all being within 

 a radius of seven miles of the city of Bangor. There are three 



