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 exact status in this state remains to be determined. Tho 

 never an abundant bird, it has been found to be locally 

 common in Green County by Messrs. Jacobs and Dickey and 

 breeds locally north thru Beaver and Armstrong Counties. 

 To the eastward, this species has been observed as a summer 

 resident in portions of Cambria, Center, Union, Columbia, 

 Pike, Monroe, and northern Northampton Counties but always 

 being scarce and very local. 



645. Vermivora rubricapilla rubricapilla ( Wils . ) . Nashville 

 Warbler. 



The Nashville Warbler has been found breeding in 

 very few localities in the state of Pennsylvania. Mr. Witmer 

 Stone found one bird near Lopez, Sullivan County, in June 

 1899. In Pike County, it has been found breeding rarely 

 about Milford, while farther west it has been observed 

 during the breeding season on the Alleghanies in Cambria 

 and Clinton Counties. Perhaps the only locality within the 

 state where it might be called common is at Pocono Lake, 

 Monroe County, where a number of pairs were observed during 

 1905, 1906, and 1907 by Messrs. Carter, Baily, and the 

 author. The bird seems to inhabit the low second growth, 

 slashings surrounded by woods and clearings containing 

 hummocks of sphagnum. In such localities it was found quite 

 commonly, even down to the edge of the lake. Here on June 



