216 . Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 



finally shot him for fear I might not find him on a second visit. 

 I am positive I heard another male at the same time." 



*641. Helminthophila pinus (Linn.). Blue-winged Warbler. 



Certhia pinus. Helminthophaga pinus. Sylvia solitaria. Vermivora soli- 

 taria. Helinaia solitaria. Blue-winged Yellow Warbler. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States, north to southern Con- 

 necticut, southeastern New York, Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, 

 northern Indiana and Illinois, southern Wisconsin, eastern 

 Nebraska. In winter through eastern Mexico to Guatemala, 

 Nicaragua and Colombia. 



In Missouri a fairly common summer resident of general 

 distribution, but like other ground-builders disappearing from 

 districts where the only remaining woodland is used as pasture 

 for hogs, which either drive the birds from their breeding grounds 

 or destroy the eggs or young in the nest. Audubon met with 

 the species at Fort Leavenworth, May 4, 1843, and Dr. J. A. 

 Allen at the same locality in May, 1874 ; Dr. Hoy found it at 

 Boonville, April 22, 1854, and common at ChilHcothe, May 16, 

 1854. It is an inhabitant of the valleys of the Ozarks and of 

 the drier parts of the southeast, but the bluff region of the rivers 

 and the Ozark border region seem to be territory most fre- 

 quented. The species is the earliest of the genus to come to 

 us in spring, appearing at our southern boundary, April 3, 1896; 

 at St. Louis and central Missouri generally, April 20; earliest 

 at St. Louis, April 17, 1883; at our northern border, April 30 

 to May 5, when the bulk has reached the rest of the state. It 

 leaves us early in fall; the last seen at St. Louis is September 

 6 to September 10, (1901). 



641.1. Helminthophila leucobronchialis (Brewster). Brew- 

 ster's Warbler. 



Helminthophaga leucobronchialis. 



Geog. Dist. — Southern New England, New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, Louisiana, Michigan. 



For the introduction of this interesting bird into our list I 

 am indebted to Mr. Edward Seymour Woodruff, who has fur- 

 nished among the many valuable notes made during his two 

 months sojourn in Shannon Co., in the spring of 1907, the 

 Brewster's Warbler, a record new to the state. In a letter dated 

 May 18, 1907, he writes: ''It is an absolutely typical specimen, 



