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Bird -Lore 



HOODED WARBLER 



SPRING MIGRATION 



The winter home of the Hooded Warbler is in Central America from 

 Vera Cruz, Mex., to Panama, whence the species reaches the United States 

 by a flight across the Gulf of Mexico, avoiding the West Indies and (for the 

 most part) southern Florida. 



Atlantic Coast — 



Northern Florida . . . 

 Southeastern Georgia 

 Atlanta, Ga. (near) 

 Raleigh, N. C. . . . 

 Asheville, N. C. (near 

 Lynchburg, Va. . . . 

 West Virginia . . . . 

 Washington, D. C. . . 

 Englewood, N. J. . . 

 Renova, Pa 



Mississippi Valley — 

 New Orleans, La. . . 

 Southern Mississippi . 



Helena, Ark 



Eubank, Ky 



St. Louis, Mo 



Central Indiana . . . 

 Keokuk, la 



No. of years' 



Average date of 



Earliest date of 



record 



spring arrival 



spring arrival 



6 



March 28 



March 19, 1885 



3 



April 4 



March 29, 1902 



9 



April 10 



April 3, 1902 



H 



April r8 



April 10, 1893 



7 



April 19 



April 12, 1893 



4 



April 29 



April 23, 1900 



7 



April 17 



April 20, 1891 



3 



May 2 



May I, 1903 



7 



May 4 



May 2, 1897 



4 



May 13 



May 10, 1901 



ID 



March 22 



March 13, 1897 



3 



March 30 . 



March 22, 1902 



7 



April II 



April 3, 1898 



7 



April 14 



April 8, 1890 



6 



April 23 



April 17, 1883 



6 



April 29 





5 



May 10 



May 5, 1898 



The Hooded Warbler has also been taken at Chicago, 111., April 28, 

 1884, and May 3, 1895; at Grinnell, la., May 18, 1888, and once in south- 

 ern Minnesota. The Texas dates are at Refugio county, March 30, 1898, 

 March 13, 1899; San Antonio, March 31, 1890, April 7, 1894; Bee 

 county, April 3, 1886, April 10, 1887. 



FALL MIGRATION 



The fall migration is hardly in full swing before the latter part of Au- 

 gust. The earliest dates at Key West, Fla., are August 30, 1887, and 

 August 19, 1889; at Truxillo, Honduras, September 26, 1887, and in 

 southeastern Nicaragua, September 24, 1892. The bulk leave the northern 

 breeding-grounds by the middle of September and the last have been noted 

 at Renova, Pa., September 26, 1900, October 13, 1903; Beaver, Pa., Sep- 

 tember 25, 1890, October 3, 1891 ; Englewood, N, J., September 15, 

 1886; Washington, D. C, September 15, 1890; French Creek, W. Va., 

 September 29, 1892; Lynchburg, Va., October 10, 1899; Raleigh, N. C, 

 October i, 1891 ; Asheville, N. C, September 20, 1890; Sedam, Ind., 

 October 5, 1893; Brownville, Ind., October 20, 1884; Eubank, Ky., Sep- 

 tember 29, 1889; New Orleans, La., October 19, 1895 and 1897, October 



