1098 EEPOKT OF STATE GEOLOGIST. 



1880, p. 123). Mr. Robert Ridgway says, in Knox Count}^ it is. 

 ''rather common in deep woods, but much less so than in the vicinity 

 of. the cypress swamp farther south" (Bull. ^NTutt. Orn. Club, 

 Vol. VII., 1882, p. 20). He writes me they breed in Knox and Gib- 

 son counties. In another place he says: "In all rich, damp woods, 

 both in Illinois and Indiana, I have found the beautiful Hooded 

 Warbler a more or less common species. In the woods of Knox and 

 Gibson counties, Indiana, immediately opposite Mt. Carmel, it is par- 

 ticularly abundant, so much so, in fact, as to be one of the most char- 

 acteristic species" (111. Orn., I., pp. 174, 175). Prof. B. W. Evermann 

 reports it not common in Vigo County. On the contrary, they were 

 quite common in the valley of Sugar Creek, in Parke and Montgomery 

 counties, May 19 and 20, 1887. At Bloomington, Mr. G. G. William- 

 son found a nest of this species in a bush, containing six young, May 

 26, 1886. It seems to occur there regularly. It is reported from De- 

 catur (Shannon) and. Brown (Barnett) counties. Mr. \. H. Coale ob- 

 tained one at Davis Station, Starke County, May 31, 1885, but pre- 

 viously, May 24, 1879, had recorded it from still farther north. On 

 the latter date he found tlie shore of Lake Michigan, in Lake County, 

 lined with the bodies of many small birds that had perished in the 

 lake during the recent storm. The record of its destruction was before 

 him, and among the bodies of the victims he found a Hooded Warbler. 

 In Dekalb County, Mrs. Jane L. Hine has noted it a few times, twice 

 in October. The last time was October 5, 1893. They begin to leave 

 in August, and through September and early October they are 

 vagrants, changing their homes as whim or necessity dictates, but all 

 the while working back towards the south. Dr. Langdon found it at 

 Cincinnati, May 4, and Messrs. Dury and Freeman, May 30, 1879. 

 It was taken at Wabash, September 13, 1893; at Bicknell, September 

 16, 1894; at Lebanon, four were seen, October 20, 1894, and it was 

 observed at Brookville, October 20, 1884. 



Their habit of taking their insect food upon the wing has been noted 

 by all observers, though they doubtless also take other insects. 



