Vol. XXin KOPMAN Warbler Migration in La. and Miss. 2Q3 



1905 J ° SO 



birds seen April i had arrived with a general wave on March 30. 

 and I observed the first, a single bird, on the latter date in 1905. 

 So far we have been unable to prove more than the fact that 

 Swainson's Warbler is a regular transient in these woods, where 

 we have seen it every spring we have looked for it since it was 

 discovered there by A. B. Blakemore, April 11, 1896. 



4. Worm-eating Warbler. — At New Orleans this species is 

 decidedly rare, especially in spring. It is more common at points 

 in the pinewoods north and east. Professor Cooke's quotations 

 from our records apply chiefly to Covington and Bay St. Louis. 



5. Bachman's Warbler.— In addition to the records cited, 

 Andrew Allison saw one at Lobdell. West Baton Rouge Parish, 

 La., May 9, 1903. 



6. Tennessee Warbler. — Our later records throw some little 

 light upon the spring migration of this bird through southern 

 Louisiana and Mississippi. In a small lot of warblers sent 

 Andrew Allison, in the spring of 1902, from the lighthouse on 

 Chandeleur Island, off the southeast coast of Louisiana, was a 

 Tennessee Warbler that had struck the lighthouse April 13. While 

 I had some dubious records of the occurrence of the Tennessee 

 Warbler at New Orleans in the early part of April, it was not until 

 1903 that I saw the species, in spring, and then in some numbers, 

 singing, and loitering to a degree that surprised me, for the first 

 of these transients appeared April 26, and the last was noted May 

 9. They were restricted almost to one spot, a thicket of willows 

 beside a pond in the suburbs of New Orleans. I observed others 

 the latter part of April, 1905. 



I once saw a specimen of a Tennessee Warbler that had been 

 taken by H. W. Pring, in St. James Parish, fifty miles west of New 

 Orleans, in March, but the exact date could not be supplied. The 

 bird was killed probably about the 20th. 



7. Parula Warbler. — It is deduced from the records fur- 

 nished that the average date of arrival in spring is March 5, and 

 the average time of first abundance is March 14. Practical 

 experience here, however, suggests that the state of affairs would 

 be slightly better indicated by approximating these two dates. 

 One may always be fairly sure of seeing the first Parula at New 

 Orleans March 7, while the species is usually abundant within 

 three or four days. 



