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At Branford on the Suwannee River, Florida, the writer first 

 met and secured this warbler on March 14, 1S92, while migrating 

 birds were noted until April 2. The next year I was collecting at 

 Old Town, sixty miles down the Suwannee (from Branford), and 

 took the first Bachman's Warbler on March 10, the birds being 

 noted until the 22d of the month, when all had apparently gone 

 north. 



In 1894 I obtained the first specimen on March 13 at the head- 

 waters of the Wacissa River, Jefferson County, Florida. Although 

 I recorded this bird as a migrant (Auk, Vol. XII, October, 1895, 

 p. 367) I now believe that it breeds locally and sparingly near the 

 village of Waukeenah. 



On March 30, 1907, I shot a fine male of this warbler near 

 Mount Pleasant from near the top of a huge water-oak tree some 

 eighty feet above the ground. It was singing exactly like a Pro- 

 thonotary Warbler (Protonotaria ciirea), and when I went to locate 

 the singer I was surprised to see that it was not that warbler, but 

 one with a black throat and breast patch. The bird sang con- 

 stantly, and as the song was identical with that of the Prothonotary 

 I concluded that it must have been either the Golden-winged 

 (Helminthophila ehrysoptera) or Lawrence's Warbler (H. lawrencei) 

 — forms I have not seen in life — and determined to secure it, 

 which I did, after having heard it sing for more than twenty minutes. 

 Upon securing the specimen I was amazed to find that it was in 

 reality a Bachman's Warbler. This song must be very rare or 

 else produced by a bachelor male. 



Helminthophila celata orestera. Rocky Mountain Orange- 

 crowned Warbler. — On December 6, 1893, I shot a very large 

 and richly colored specimen (c? ad.) of what I supposed was the 

 Lutescent Warbler (Helminthophila celata lutescens). I sent this 

 bird to my friend Mr. William Brewster for determination, and 

 under date of January 25, 1894, he wrote concerning the specimen 

 as follows: "The Orange-crowned Warbler is not lutescens. It is 

 not nearly yellow enough but matches closely the birds which 

 occur in Texas and the Mississippi Valley generally." 



In 'The Auk,' XXII, July, 1905, pp. 243-245, Mr. Harry C. 

 Oberholser described under the name Vennivora celata orestera 

 a new form of the Orange-crowned Warbler from the mountains 



