lob Kopmax, Birds of Louisiana. [April 



about May 1. Returns very early; recorded July 4, 1906, at Bay St. 

 Louis, Miss.; commonest in August and September. Last at New Orleans, 

 Oct. 25, 1914. 



265. Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea). Common sum- 

 mer visitor in river bottoms and swampy regions, especially about sloughs 

 and along sluggish streams. Usually arrives by March 20; earliest arrival 

 at New Orleans, March 15, 1894. Leaves about the end of September, 

 The arrival in the immediate coast section, where it is most abundant, is 

 decidedly earlier than in moist bottoms in the higher parts of the State, 

 where the first are usually seen early in April. 



266. Swainson's Warbler (Helinaia swainsoni). Occurs chiefly in 

 wild cane brakes in low woods or along streams. Occurs rather commonly 

 as a spring transient in one of the former of such locations near New Orleans. 

 I found it surprisingly common not only in the cane brakes but throughout 

 a considerable section of rich swampy woods in the same general locality 

 on April 14, 1905. At least twenty-five or thirty were noted in covering 

 a distance of probably ten miles. There was a good deal of water in the 

 swamps at the time. Earliest arrival at New Orleans, March 30, 1905. 

 Have never noted it in fall. May breed sparingly at New Orleans. 



267. Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitheros vermivorus). A transient 

 only in the more southern part of the State, seldom very common, and 

 usually seen only for brief periods. Prefers deep, moist woods. The 

 earliest in spring was noted at Bay St. Louis, Miss., April 5, 1902; the 

 earliest arrival in fall near the coast is August 11, 1897, at Beauvoir, Miss. 

 Latest date of departure in fall, Sept. 30, 1897, at Ariel, Miss. 



268. Bachman's Warbler (Vermivora bachmani). In the more south- 

 ern parts of Louisiana and Mississippi at least, this species is undoubtedly 

 only a transient. Besides the previously published records of its capture 

 on the northern shore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana by Mr. Charles 

 Galbraith (Auk, Vols. 4 and 5), it has been noted by Mr. Andrew Allison 

 in Mississippi on the following occasions: March 26, 1902, Bay St. Louis, 

 Miss.; March 24, 1906, Ellisville, Miss.; July 4, 1906, Bay St. Louis, Miss. 



269. Blue-winged Warbler (Vermivora pinus). May breed in the 

 northern part of the State; a rather rare transient in all localities where I 

 have made observations. Earliest date of arrival in spring, March 13, 

 1902, Bay St. Louis, Miss.: earliest arrival in fall, July 23, 1898, Bay St. 

 Louis, Miss. 



270. Golden-winged Warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) . A rather 

 rare transient. Appears to migrate rather late in spring and early in fall: 

 August 12, 1897, Beauvoir, Miss. 



[Nashville Warbler (Vermivora rubricapilla rubricapilla). This spe- 

 cies does not appear to have ever been recorded in the State, though it has 

 been noted at Bay St. Louis, Miss., in September, and I am practically 

 sure of having seen it at Beauvoir, Miss., at the same season.] 



271. Orange-crowned Warbler (Vermivora celata celata). A com- 

 mon winter visitor in the alluvial region of the central southern and south- 



