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BIRDS OF NORTH CAROLINA 

 SPRING MIGRATION Continued. 



NOTES ON PRECEDING TABLE 



Unmarked species are summer visitors. 



* Signifies species that are transients, i. e., here only during migration. 



f Signifies summer stragglers, i. e., species that wander here from their breeding grounds after 

 the young are able to fly. 



a. Chipping Sparrow once on December 29, 1890. 



6. Rusty Blackbird once on December 16, 1889. 



c. King Rail once each on January 23, 1890, and February 29, 1896. 



d. Blue-headed Vireo once each on December 15, 1885, and January 3, 1891. 



e. Black-and-white Warbler once on November 10, 1885. 

 /. Bittern once on December 7, 1886. 



f. Maryland Yellow-throat occasional in winter. 

 . Blue-winged Teal once on December 7, 1893. 

 i. White-eyed Vireo once on March 3, 1890. 

 j. Tree Swallow once on March 12, 1887. 

 k. Bachman's Sparrow once on March 9, 1887. 

 I. Yellow Warbler only very occasional after July. 

 m. Virginia Rail once on March 7, 1891. 

 n. Coot once on December 1, 1882. 



o. Catbird occasionally seen late in autumn and rarely in winter. 

 p. Long-billed Marsh Wren seen rarely in January and March. 



Where no average dates of arrival are given, the records are either too meager or irregular to 

 warrant such. 



Records of other stragglers are: Dowitcher, July 29, 1884; White Pelican, May 12, 1884; and 

 Lark Sparrow, August 19, 1889, and October 23, 1893. 



