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I did, after having heard it sing for more than twenty minutes. 

 Upon securing the specimen I was amazed to find that it was, 

 in reality, a Bachman's Warbler. This song must be very rare 

 or else produced by a bachelor male. 



A young male taken May 30, 1906, while partly in the first 

 plumage, and first winter plumage on the back and sides, was, 

 however, assuming the black markings of the adult male on the 

 jugulum and fore breast, while the crown was ashy instead of 

 black. In the Auk, 1 Mr. Brewster states: 



Our males, thirty-six in number, vary exceedingly in respect to the depth 

 and extent of the black of the head and throat, but most of the black feathers 

 are narrowly tipped with ashy or olive yellow which doubtless disappears later 

 in the season. 



My breeding males all show, the olive yellow edging on the black 

 feathers. 



This interesting species winters in Cuba. 



251. Vermivora celata (Say) . Orange-crowned Warbler. 



On November 27, 1884, I shot my first specimen of this inter- 

 esting winter visitant on Sullivan's Island among some myrtle 

 bushes near the front beach. This specimen, as well as others 

 taken in 1885, was recorded in the Auk? 



My earliest date for its arrival is October 30, 1897, but it is 

 never abundant until the middle of November, remaining until 

 the second week in April. It is capable of enduring intense cold. 

 I have seen numbers of these highly interesting birds near Char- 

 leston when the thermometer ranged as low as 8° above zero 

 and it is always more active and hence oftener seen when the weath- 

 er is cold and cloudy. 



The Orange-crowned Warbler inhabits thickets of lavender 

 and myrtle bushes as well as oak scrub, and its center of abundance 

 is on the coast islands, the greater part of which is veritable jun- 

 gle, in which it particularly delights. Its only note while it 

 sojourns here is a chip or cheep which very closely resembles the 

 note of the Field Sparrow in winter. 



This species breeds as far north as the Yukon and Mackenzie 

 River regions, and southward through the Rocky Mountains. 



Mr. Harry C. Oberholser 3 has described a new race of the Or- 

 ange-crowned Warbler which he named V. c. or ester a. I do 



« VIII, 1891, 156. 2 III, 1886, 138-139. »Auk, XXII, 1905, 243-244. 



