1Q1 Brewster, Breeding of Bachman's Warbler. \c>*i 



from Charleston, in South Carolina, in July, 1833, " ' when "an 

 old female that had to all appearance just reared a brood of 

 young " 2 was taken. " Shortly after, several were seen in the 

 same neighborhood." l The season at which these birds were met 

 with was not, of course, sufficiently early to make it at all certain 

 that they were still on or even very near their breeding grounds, 

 for many of our Warblers reach the Dry Tortugas on their south- 

 ward migration before the middle of July. Mr. Wayne's observa- 

 tions are therefore of much importance as definitely establishing, 

 for the first time, the fact that Bachman's Warbler actually breeds 

 in the low coast region of South Carolina. It would be interesting 

 to know if the species has been a regular summer resident of this 

 region ever since 1833. If so it must be confined to only a very 

 few localities, at least in the neighborhood of Charleston. Were 

 the case otherwise the bird would almost certainly have been 

 found, long before this, by Mr. Wayne, for he is one of the most 

 acute, persistent and thorough of the many excellent field orni- 

 thologists whose names have come into prominence in this country 

 within the past quarter of a century, and there are few woods or 

 swamps anywhere near Charleston which he is not accustomed to 

 visit at all seasons. 



'J.J. Audubon, Birds of America, II, 1841, 93. 

 2 John Bachman, Ibid. 



