1906 1 Beyer, Allison, Kopman, Birds of Louisiana. 9 



The Kentucky Warbler is common in moist level woodland 

 throughout the region, Other characteristic species are the Yel- 

 low-billed Cuckoo, the Green-crested Flycatcher, the White-eyed 

 Vireo, and the Yellow-breasted Chat. The characteristic breeding 

 finches are the Cardinal and the Painted Bunting. No other 

 breeding finches, except the Towhee and the Indigo Bunting, in 

 comparatively small numbers, are recorded for this section, though 

 the Dickcissel is a hypothetical breeder in this area, and is always 

 found in summer to the very eastern edge of the prairie region on 

 the west. 



• A species whose range in Louisiana might almost be said to 

 define the area under consideration is the Florida Grackle. 



Catbirds and Thrashers are absent in summer, as, indeed, from 

 most of the State. The normal abundance of Crested Flycatchers, 

 Wood Pewees, Summer Tanagers, and Red-eyed Vireos, however, 

 and the presence of the Wood Thrush as a breeder in much smaller 

 numbers than these species, make it still more difficult to discover 

 the exact set of characters to which should be attributed some of 

 the deficiencies in summer. 



In migration, the country is stamped somewhat peculiar through 

 the practical absence of the northern breeding and extralimital 

 wintering Dendroicoe and most of the other northern breeding 

 Mniotiltidae, except, of course, the Myrtle Warbler. The usual 

 inconspicuousness of this class of warblers, however, is more or less 

 characteristic of all the adjoining regions in both Louisiana and 

 Mississippi, and, in fact, almost throughout the coastal plain of 

 the Gulf States. 



Even the more southern breeding warblers, such as the Black- 

 and-white, Worm-eating, Yellow, and Redstart, are uncommon 

 migrants throughout this Louisiana area in spring. In fall, the 

 conditions are not so unusual. Notable exceptions in fall to the 

 conditions found in spring are the more southern breeding warblers, 

 and two of the more northern breeding, the Magnolia and the 

 Tennessee. The last two are among the commonest migrants 

 in October. 



In winter, the conditions approach more nearly to what would 

 be considered normal somewhat to the north. The principal 

 exception to this statement is afforded in the small variety of win- 



