208 Woodruff, Birds of Shannon and Carter Counties, Mo. [Anril 



sions, securing a male in Sliannon Co. May 2, and another male at Grandin, 

 Carter Co., May 23 (Nos. 1499 and 1575, Coll. L. B. and E. S. W.) There 

 can be but little question that both these birds were on their breeding 

 grounds, for the Bachman's Warbler is one of our earliest warbler migrants, 

 arriving in southern United States in March and is on its breeding grounds 

 in Dunklin Co., Mo., by the middle of April. Nests with eggs were found 

 by Mr. O. Widmann in Dunklin Co. as early as May 14 (1898). Tliis 

 extends the range of Bachman's Warbler about 100 miles to the north- 

 west. The most surprising tiling, especially in the case of the Shannon 

 Co. bird, was that they should have been found in a locality so totally 

 different in character from that of their previously known breeding haunts. 

 The Shannon Co. bird was in some low bushes in the dry stream bed of 

 Spring Valley (Twp. 29, R. 5, Section 5). The Grandin bird was in a dense, 

 wooded thicket in the valley of the Little Black River — a more suitable 

 situation, though still in a hilly and comparatively dry country. The 

 latter bird was like a will-o'-the-wisp, leading me on, singing just ahead 

 of me and keeping out of sight except for an occasional fleeting glimpse. 

 Then he would stop singing for ten or fifteen minutes at a time, only to 

 begin again back where I had first heard liim. Once he suddenly appeared 

 in the lower branches of a small tree within fifteen feet of me, and seemed 

 utterly unmindful of my presence though I was in full \aew, foraging 

 busily and silently among the leaves near the ends of the branches. Though 

 he spent most of his time feeding and singing in shrubs and bushes, he 

 would occasionally mount well up into the branches of some of the taller 

 trees and sit quietly singing. After I had spent over two hours there 

 patiently watcliing and waiting, I shot him while he was pouring out his 

 song about 35 feet up in an oak. The song to my ear is very similar to 

 that of the Worm-eating Warbler. I felt confident that I heard another 

 male singing at the same time, but as none were seen or heard on several 

 later visits to the same locality, I may have been mistaken. 



*104. Helminthophila pinus. Blue-winged Warbler. — Common. 

 The first one was seen at the Current River, Shannon Co., April 20, and 

 they appeared in the vicinity of our camp April 24. 



*105. Helminthophila leucobronchiaUs. Brewster's Warbler.',- — 

 On May 12 I secured in Shannon Co. an absolutely typical specimen of the 

 Brewster's Warbler (No. 1531, d^. Coll. L. B. and E. S. W.). The entire 

 underparts are pure wliite without even a suggestion of any yellow wash. 

 The back is bluish gray slightly tinged in the middle with greenish. A 

 single, broad wing-patch of canary yellow. Its song was similar to that 

 of H. chrysoptera. Tliis is the first Brewster's Warbler to be recorded 

 from Missouri or from west of the Mississijjpi River. 



*106. Helminthophila rubricapilla. N.\shville Warbler. — Arrived 

 in Shannon Co. April 28 and were fairly common. The last were seen 

 May 17 at Grandin, Carter Co. 



1 Auk, Vol. XXIV, p. 348. • 



2 Widraann, Prelim. Cat. Birds Mo., p. 216. 



