CANADIAN FAUNA ON THE ALLEtillANIES. , -, -, 



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Sdophaga niticilla. F'rom the season at which these were observed, 

 they evidently bred in the locahty in question. They were most of 

 them abundant. 



" In the high valley of Henderson County, and on the Black, Rich, 

 and other mountains in southern North Carolina, in September, 

 1869, I observed the following : Jiinco hycnialis, Virco solitariiis, 

 Dendraxa coronata, D. macidosa, D. virens, D. aeridcsccns, D. Blcick- 

 biirnicr. Panda Americana, Mniotilta varia, Myiodioctcs mitratiis, 

 SdopJiaga ridicUla. These were also abundant, and no doubt bred 

 in the localities in question." 



()t the species mentioned of any direct value to the present con- 

 sideration, the only one which has actually been ascertained to breed 

 with regularity in the southern Alleghanies is the Slate-colored 

 Snowbird. Although it is very probable that with this species are 

 associated in the breeding season most of the others mentioned, the 

 evidence quoted is hardly sufficient to establish this. Again accept- 

 ing the Snowbird and, of the latter enumeration, the Blue- Headed 

 Vireo and Yellow-rumped Warbler in addition, all the species men- 

 tioned, — contrary to what most published records of migrations would 

 lead us to suppose, but which data is at hand abundantly to prove, — 

 enter upon their southward migration in August, most of them, in- 

 deed, so early as the middle of that month; therefore, the fact of the 

 occurrence of any of these birds in the late summer or early autumn 

 in the southern Alleghanies is by no means conclusive evidence that 

 they have bred there. 



Most of the birds referred to, however, have been recorded as 

 breeding in southern Pennsylvania, although the fact appears to 

 have been very generally overlooked. In the Bairds' " List of Birds 



found in the vicinity of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Penn "* 



the following named species, of interest to the present consideration, 



* Sillim. Am. Journ., XVI, 1S44, 261-273. 



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