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Distribution. This species breeds from central Delaware and southern 

 Maryland to middle Florida, and winters from southern Florida to the 

 Bahamas and Greater Antilles. During the migration it occasionally 

 wanders as far northward as New England. There are two records for 

 New York State, the first from Crow hill, Kings county (see Dutcher, 

 Auk, 10:277; and Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. hist, of New York, 6, 8). 

 The second record is also from Long Island, Oyster Bay, July 4-8, 1907, 

 a bird of this species discovered by Mrs E. H. Swan jr, identified by 

 Theodore Roosevelt and recorded in Scribner's Magazine, volume 42, 

 page 387. This latter specimen, I believe, is now preserved in the American 

 Museum of Natural History. It is evident that this bird is the rarest of 

 our accidental visitants of the warbler family, being considerably less 

 common in this State than the Prothonotary warbler. 



Habits. The Yellow-throated warbler inhabits open piny woods. 

 Its motions are much slower than those of the Black and white warbler, 

 but it has a similar habit of searching the larger branches and trunks of 

 trees for food, its motion being more of a hopping than a creeping one, its 

 hunting ground being confined mostly to the higher branches and bunches 

 of pine needles. Its song is loud and ringing, the common form being 

 " ching-ching-ching, chicker-cher-wee ," with the wild, ringing, carrying 

 quality which recalls the song of the Water thrush, and has also been 

 compared to the song of the Indigo bird (Brewster and Chapman). 



Dendroica virens (Gmelin) 

 Black-throated Green Warbler 



Plate 97 



Motacilla virens Gmelin. Syst. Nat. 1789. 1:985 

 Sylvicola virens DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 100, fig. 114 

 Dendroica virens A. 0. U. Check List. Ed. 3. 1910. p. 317. No. 667 



virens, Lat., green 



Description. Upper parts yellowish olive green; face and sides of the 

 head yellow; 2 conspicuous whitish wing bars; outer tail feathers largely 

 white; throat and breast black; sides streaked with black; belly yellowish 

 white. Female : Similar but duller above and the throat whitish ; the 



