ANNOTATED LIST OF THE BIRDS 331 



BRONX REGION. Common transient; May 11, 1919 (L. N. 



Nichols) to May 31, 1917 (L. N. Nichols); August 28, 1922 



(Griscom) to October 2, 1889 (Dwight); casual July 26, 



1875 (E. P. Bicknell). 



New Jersey. Now a generally common transient in our section. 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. Now usually a common transient; 

 May 1, 1904 (C. H. Rogers); May 10, 1913 (J. T. Nichols) to 

 June 9, 1917 (Weber); August 15, 1915 (Weber) to September 

 9, 1913 (Weber), exceptionally to September 27 (Weber) and 

 October 3, 1915 (C. H. Rogers). Mr. Weber's dates are based 

 on collected specimens, and are excellently representative of 

 the fall migration of this species. 



BLACKPOLL WARBLER (Dendroica striata) 

 A very common spring and abundant fall transient 

 throughout our territory. There was an old "saw" that the 

 arrival of the Blackpoll Warbler marked the close of the 

 migration, but this theory has long since been exploded. It 

 arrives about May 11, has arrived in numbers May 7 and 

 casually even earlier, but does not reach its maximum num- 

 bers until after May 20, and is the only Warbler which lingers 

 regularly into June. Due to the fact that most students in 

 this territory have failed to recognize the fall Bay-breasted 

 Warbler, the Blackpoll is generally credited with arriving in 

 August, and as it is known to be abundant, all birds are called 

 Blackpolls, unless an occasional individual is satisfactorily 

 determined otherwise. Hero we have an excellent illustration 

 of how such slip-shod methods lead to error. The facts are 

 that the Blackpoll rarely arrives before September 10, does 

 not become common until the migration of the Bay-breasted 

 is almost over, and remains regularly to the middle of October. 

 I here reject almost all August reports, knowing them to be 

 inconclusive. 



Long Island. Abundant transient; (May 2, May 3), May 11 

 to June 6, 18, and 20; September 1 to October 30, and casually to 

 November 20. 



ORIENT. Common transient; May 2, 1920 to June 20, 

 1914; average May 12 to June 6; September 2, 1909 to 

 November 20, 1913. 



