BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES. 
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Plate XVIII. 
DENDROECA DISCOLOR, Baird. 
Prairie Warbler. 
The Prairie Warbler is nowhere an abundant species. Throughout 
the eastern parts of the United States, from Massachusetts to Georgia, it 
is pretty generally, though somewhat irregularly, diffused. It is also found 
in Kansas, according to Mr. Allen, although unobserved by Dr. Coues in 
his western explorations. 
Audubon claims to have met it in Louisiana, but his description of 
its nesting is so palpably inaccurate, that we are compelled to accept his 
statement with misgivings. Wilson obtained specimens in Kentucky, and 
to him the species is indebted for the very inapprojiriate appellation by 
which it is known. Nuttall regarded it a rare visitor in the New Eng- 
land States, yet subsequent observations do not confirm his opinion, but 
show, in Massachusetts especially, that it is rather common. In Eastern 
Tennessee and Northern Georgia, in the summer of 1880, Mr. Alexander 
M. Reynolds, of Germantown, Pa., met with numerous individuals, which 
had probably bred in those regions, but no nests were taken. 
Although the town of Lynn, Mass., in latitude 42° 30', had hitherto 
been accepted as the northern limit of its breeding, yet it was reserved 
for H. D. Minot, Esq., to prove that the species often reached the latitude 
of Mt. Washington, nearly three degrees further north. Future explora- 
tions will doubtless show that its vernal migration often surpasses this 
limit, and reaches even to the Canadian dominions. 
In the Middle Atlantic States the writer has obtained specimens early 
in May, and has observed in Southern New Jersey, and elsewhere, young 
