kibtland's warbler. 263 



Dendrceca kirtlandi Baird. 



K irtland's "Warbler- 



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Sylvicola Mrilandii, Baird, Ann. Lye. N. T., v, 1852, 217, p]. vi. — Cassin, Illnst., i, 18.'55, 



278, pi. 47.— ZUCHOLD, J. f. O., 1854, 355 (copies deso-ip ) 

 Dendroica Urtlandii, Baikd, P. E. E. Eep., ix, 1858, 267, 286 j Eev. A. Birds, 1865, 206. 



KiRKPATKiCK(?), Ohio Farmer, ix, 1860, 179, Jiirie 9.— Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Kep. 



for 1860, 1861, 364, 374 ; Eeprint, 6, 16. 

 Dendrceca Mrilandii, CouES, Key, 1872, 104; Birds N. W., 1874, 753. (Hamilton Co., O.) 

 Dendroica kirtlandi, Baird, Brewer and Eiugway, N. A. Birds, i, 1874, 221. 

 Dendrceca Mrtlandi, Wheaton, Food of Birds, etc., Ohio Agric. Rep. for 1874, 1875, 564 ; 



Eeprint, 4 ; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 58 — Langdon, Cat. Birds of Cin., 1877, 6 ; 



Revised List, Journ. Cin. Soo. Nat.' Hist., i, 1879, 172; Reprint, 6. — CouES, Birds of 



Col. Val., 1878, 249.— Jordan, Man. Vert., 1878, 66,— Purdib, Ball. Nutt. Orn. 



Club, iv, 1879, 185. 



"Above slate blue, the feathers of the crown with a narrow, those of the back with a 

 broader, streak of blaclj ; a narrow frontlet involving the lores, the anterior end of the 

 eye and space beneath it, black ; the rest of the eyelids white ; under parts clear yellow, 

 almost white on the under tail coverts, the breast with small spots and the sides with 

 short streaks of black ; greater and middle wing coverts, the quills and tail featherp, 

 edged with dull whitish ; two outer feathers with a dull white spot on the inner web ; 

 5.50 ; wing 2.80 ; tail 2.67." {Baird.) 



Habitat, Ohio and Michigan. Bahamas. Wiacocsin ? 



Very rare. Known only as a spring migrant" in the United States. 

 Probably V' inter resident in the Bahamas. Mr. H. A. Purdie (Bull. Nutt. 

 Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 185) records the last capture of a specimen, and 

 enumerates the examples previously known, as follows : 



"Mr. Adolphe B. Covert, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, writes me that on May 16 last he 

 shot a female of this much desired warbler, his second capture of the species. This re- 

 cent specimen I make to be the ninth known to science, viz : 



" 1. Male, caught on a vessel at sea off Abaco, Bahamas, by Dr. Samuel Cabot, of 

 Boston, the second week in October, 1841. Not identified until several years after the 

 type specimen was described. 



"2. Male taken by Dr. J. P. Kirtland near Cleveland, Ohio, May 13, 1851. Type of 

 the species. 



"3. Male obtained by E. K. Winslow near Cleveland, Ohio, in June (May?), 1860. 



" 4. Male shot by Charles Dury at Cincinnati, Ohio, the first week in May, 1872. 



"5. Female, collected by A. B. Covert, at Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 15, 1875. 



"6 and 7. Male and female, taken by Messrs. William and John Hall, at Eockport, 

 Cuyahoga county, Ohio, May, 1878. 



"8. Female, collected by Charles E. Corey, on Andros Island, Bahamas, January 9, 

 1879. 



"9. Mr. Covert's specimen above described. 



"Three or four others, I believe, have been noted, but were not secured. This bird 

 and Selminihophoga leucobronoMalis have about an even record." 



