PASSERES MNIOTILTID^E. 175 



This Warbler reaches Lorain county during the first week 

 in May. I have no autumn records of the return south. It 

 probably tarries until the first of September at least. 



241. (645.) HELMINTHOPHILA RUBRICAPILLA (Wils.). 34. 



Nashville Warbler. 



Synonyms: Helminthophaga ruficapilla, Sylvia rubricapilla, 



Vermivora rubricapilla, Sylvia ruficapilla. 

 Nashville Swamp Warbler, Nashville Worm-eater. 



Kirtland, Ohio Geol. Surv., 1838, 168, 182. 



The Nashville Warbler is a common migrant, passing 

 entirely across the state twice each year. It is not confined 

 to the woods but is just as common in the parks and along 

 the tree-lined streets, and in the door-yards among the fruit 

 and ornamental trees, busily engaged in cleaning out the in- 

 sect pests from bud and leaf. 



This warbler reaches Lorain county about the first of May 

 and is common for two and sometimes three weeks, often 

 tarrying until the 23d of May. It returns in force early 

 in September and remains about four weeks. There is little 

 doubt that this is a late date for the return of this and many 

 other warblers, but the records show no earlier dates. 



242. (646.) HELMINTHOPHILA CELATA (Say). 35. . 



Orange-crowned Warbler. 



Synonyms: Helminthophaga celata, Sylvia celata. 

 Wheaton, Ohio Agri. Report, 1860 363, 373. 



Dr. Wheaton's statement that this is a "Rare spring and 

 fall migrant" remains true to-day. The bird is little known. 

 I have found it but a half-dozen times at Oberlin, and not 

 more than one bird for each record. Once it was feeding 

 in an orchard just out of the village, the other times in the 

 woods low down in the brush. 



My dates of spring migration fall within the first week of 

 May. I have no autumn records. 



