BIRDS OF PENNSYLVANIA. 291 



About half a dozen specimens of this species have been taken in Ohio 

 since the type was captured, May 13, 1851, near Cleveland, Ohio, by Dr. 

 Jared P. Kirtland. I have never seen a Kirtland's Warbler in this state, 

 and the only one that has ever been taken here, so far as I can learn, is 

 now in the collection of Prof. H. J. Koddy, of Millersville State Normal 

 School, Pennsylvania. Concerning this species, Mr. Koddy writes me 

 as follows: "I shot a Kirtland's Warbler (D. kirtlandi), June 25, 1885, 

 near Dublin Gap Springs, Pennsylvania." In the list of birds which 

 accompanied Mr. Koddy's letter, Kirtland's Warbler is marked as a 

 breeder, with the following note, " saw one (doubtless the one he shot 

 June 25, 1885) and its family." During migrations this warbler has 

 been found in the eastern United States as above noted ; it has been 

 taken in winter in the Bahamas, but of its summer residence naturalists 

 know nothing. 



Dendroica vigorsii (AuD.). 



Pine Warbler. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Bill rather stout, blackish ; legs brownish ; bill in young is generally paler, espec- 

 ially mandible about base. 



Length about 5| ; extent 8J. 



Above bright yellowish-olive ; sides of head and neck same color, superciliary 

 stripe, spot under eye, chin, throat, breast, portion of sides, and upper part of abdo- 

 men yellow. The lower part of belly and under tail-coverts in six specimens before 

 me, are dull white, and two other specimens have these parts as well as flanks 

 tinged with yellow ; sides of breast obsoletely streaked with dusky ; wings and tail 

 dusky grayish ; the edge of outer webs of primaries edged with grayish-white, and 

 two wing bands of same. The two outer pairs of tail-feathers have large white 

 spaces towards the end on inner webs, and middle portion of outer web of first pair 

 of lateral tail-feathers, is also white or grayish. 



Female somewhat similar but duller, more grayish-olive above, less yellowish 

 below. 



Habitat. Eastern United States, to the plains, north to Ontario and New Bruns- 

 wick, wintering in the south Atlantic and Gulf States and the Bahamas. 



The Pine Warbler, a regular though not a common migrant in the 

 spring and fall, arrives in Pennsylvania late in April or early in May 

 and departs usually in September. 



By the last of October but few of these birds are met with in this 

 state. I have, however, seen one or two of these warblers here in win- 

 ter. Mr. Gentry mentions an instance where a stray individual was 

 taken near Philadelphia in midwinter. The Messrs. Baird found this 

 bird breeding in Cumberland county. I have taken, at different times, 

 three Pine Warblers in midsummer in pine and hemlock woods in the 

 mountainous regions, and have no doubt this species breeds regularly, 

 but sparingly in our extensive coniferous forests. Prof. H. J. Roddy has 

 found the Pine Warbler breeding in Perry county. The same observer 

 has also seen this bird in the southern part of our state as a casual win- 

 ter resident. Mr. Sennett has observed this bird in the Crawford-Erie 



