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observed it sparingly from the 2d to the 10th of May in different years. 

 Most of the individuals noted have been males. Not observed in the fall. 

 Mr. Atkins says of the species : " Rare migrant in spring at Punta Rassa, 

 recorded but once, on May 4, 1SS6; but in fall it is common at this point, 

 and at Key West it is very common on both migrations and is sometimes 

 to be found in the winter." 



Dendroica coronata. MyrtLe Warbler. — Abundant migrant and 

 common winter resident at all points on the Gulf coast of Florida. The 

 capture of an adult female in worn breeding plumage at Key West, July 



28, 1888, by Mr. J. W. Atkins, is of interest and has been, recorded in 

 'The Auk,' Vol. V, p. 430. 



Dendroica maculosa. Magnolia Warbler. — This species is appar- 

 ently a very rare spring migrant along the Gulf coast of Florida, and 

 though not common in fall is of regular occurrence at that season. Mr. 

 Atkins did not find the species at Punta Rassa, but has detected it at Key 

 West twice in the spring, May 17, 1887, and April 27, 1889, a single bird 

 being taken on each occasion. He sends me no records of it from Key 

 West in the fall. 



Dendroica caerulea. Cerulean Warbler. — I have not detected the 

 presence of this species at Tarpon Springs or at other points that have 

 been visited on the Gulf coast. Mr. Atkins did not find the bird at Punta 

 Rassa, but took one at Key West, April 16, 1SS7, and another on April 



29, 1889, these being all of his records. 



Dendroica striata. Black-poll Warbler. — A common migrant in 

 both spring and fall on the Gulf coast in the vicinity of Tarpon Springs 

 and at other points where investigations have been carried on. At Tar- 

 pon Springs they arrive in spring about the last week in April and remain 

 till about May 12-15. 



In this connection it is of interest to record a great mortality among the 

 representatives of this species, during the spring migration of 1SS8. It is 

 so rare that one finds any birds dying or dead from other than accidental 

 causes, generally connected in some way with innovations caused by 

 the settlement of a country, as telegraph wires, light-houses, and the like, 

 that it seems worth while to give the following details of the epidemic. 

 It was apparently confined, so far as I am aware, to representatives of this 

 species alone, and only to those individuals which visited the Anclote 

 Keys and Hog Island. These Keys are four in number, and are four 

 miles from the main land, in the Gulf, and extend in a north and south 

 line for about twenty-five miles. I found in late April and early May 

 many D. striata dead, and others apparently ill unto death on these 

 islands, and though there was an infinite variety of other bird-life repre- 

 sented aTthe same points, yet no other species seemed to be suffering or 

 was found dead. Of Dendroica striata I picked up dead on April 29, 

 188S, in a short walk on South Anclote Key, upwards of twenty-five. 



In the fall the birds pass late in September and during October in 

 numbers. 



Mr. Atkins considers the birds as rare spring migrants at Punta Rassa, 



