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and the end of the third week in the southeast; the majority 

 pass through between September 8 and October 6. 



670. Dendroica kirtlandi Baird. Kirtland's Warbler. 



Sylvicola kirtlandi. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern United States and Ontario from Florida 

 north to Michigan and Minnesota; west to Missouri. Breeds 

 in Michigan. Winters in Bahamas. 



A male taken by the writer May 8, 1885, near the city limits 

 of St. Louis is the only record of the occurrence of this rare bird 

 in Missouri. It is now in the collection of mounted birds in 

 Washington University of St. Louis. Its capture is reported 

 in '^The Auk/' vol. 2, page 382. 



*671. Dendroica vigorsii (Aud.). Pine Warbler. 



Dendroica pinus. Sylvia pinus. Sylvia vigorsii. Sylvicola pinus. Pine- 

 creeping Warbler. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, north to Nova Scotia, 

 New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Breeds 

 in pine woods, both north and south, and is found in hard wood 

 forests only in migration. Winters in the South Atlantic and 

 Gulf States. 



In Missouri a fairly common transient visitant in the eastern 

 part of the state, but apparently unknown in western Missouri 

 north of the Ozarks. In the pine region the species is a rare 

 summer resident. On its breeding grounds it had already 

 arrived when Mr. E. S. Woodruff reached Grandin, March 8, 

 1907, and Ink, Shannon Co., March 10, 1907. April 25 he se- 

 cured a young unable to fly, but fed by its parents on the ground. 

 North-bound transients pass through from the middle to the end 

 of April. Earliest at St. Louis, April 11, 1896; latest at St. 

 Louis and Keokuk, May 3, 1903. Though never very common 

 it is most numerous from April 21 to 23, when its peculiarly 

 whirring song is often heard. This same song is also given in 

 fall, when it spends two to three months in transit through 

 the state. At St. Louis a singing male has been met with as 

 early as August 20, 1905; others August 26, 1896, and August 

 29, 1897. The species remains through September into October, 

 even to the latter part of the month (October 24, 1879), but is 

 oftenest noted from about October 3 to 5. 



