KENTUCKY WARBLER 



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records of the latest observations are at Berwyn, Pa., September 4, 

 1896; Beaver, Pa., September 13, 1888; Cadiz, Ohio, September 23, 

 1900; Eubank, Ky., September 6, 1888; Raleigh, N. C, September 

 12, 1894; New Orleans, La., October 19, 1895. 



Spring Migration, 



The Bird and its Haunts. My own experience with this Warbler, 

 which in habits suggests both the Yellow-throat (trichas) and Oven- 

 bird, is confined to the west side of the Hudson River, at Englewood, 

 N. J. Here, on the western slope of the Palisades, in moist woods 

 with a fairly heavy undergrowth, it is not uncommon, though it is 

 virtually unknown in the apparently favorable woods growing in the 

 valleys to the west. During the nesting season, the loud, musical song 

 of the male readily betrays his whereabouts, and one may watch it 

 with ease as it frequently utters its notes from a perch at a height of 

 twenty feet or thereabouts, descending at intervals to walk about on 

 the ground and search for food. 



At Berwyn, Pennsylvania, Burns (MS.) writes: "The Kentucky 

 Warbler is usually one of our commonest summer residents, though 

 apt to be rather irregular in abundance now and then. During the 

 season of 1897, it became abundant, falling off to about half the 

 number the following year. It is here an inhabitant of the overgrown 

 clearings, swampy thickets, and the borders of woodland; a bird of 

 the south, loving the luxuriant undergrowths of spicewood, ferns, 

 mandrake, skunk cabbage, and other shade-loving plants of rank 

 growth. 



