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during both migrations, where he has observed it from April 

 15 to May 3, and from October 4 to 26. * 



Mr. Ellison A. Smyth, Jr., secured an adult male at Summerton, 

 Clarendon county, on September 20, 1885. Mr. Smyth writes 

 me that it was shot in low oak scrub. 



All the specimens which I have enumerated, with one or two 

 exceptions, were taken after storms or severe winds accompanied 

 by rain. 



The Cape May Warbler breeds from Vermont to Hudson Bay. 

 It is resident in Jamaica and is said to breed on the mountains 

 of that island. 



256. Dendroica aestiva (Gmel.). Yellow Warbler. 



The Yellow Warbler is positively uncommon during the spring 

 migrations, but exceedingly abundant in summer and autumn. 

 My earliest record is April 19, and the birds remain as late as May 

 19. By July 4, the return migration takes place and a few young 

 birds arrive, but it is not until the 10th or 15th that they are 

 common. 



In spring the birds confine themselves to open situations where 

 there is a spare growth of low trees and bushes in swampy local- 

 ities, and the males are persistent singers during the forenoon. 

 The habits of the birds are entirely changed, however, in summer 

 and autumn, for then they frequent the cotton fields, as well as 

 lands which have been planted with peas for forage. It is also 

 not unusual in autumn to see as many as twenty or more of these 

 little birds far out in the salt marshes, where they find food in 

 abundance. This species is so very abundant in late summer 

 and autumn that it is not unusual to encounter hundreds of in- 

 dividuals in a few hours on plantations in close proximity to salt 

 water. My latest record is October 29, and that date probably 

 represents the limit of their sojourn in autumn. 



Prof. Wells W. Cooke states: 2 



If a map of the United States and Canada south of the Barren Grounds was 

 colored to represent the breeding area of the Yellow Warbler, the unoolored 

 portions would comprise Florida, southern Georgia, and numerous small "islands" 

 representing the upper parts of the eastern mountains and such parts of the 

 western mountains as are above 6,000-8,000 feet. 



From this statement one would assume that the Yellow War- 



i SeeAuk, VIII, 1891, 170. 



2 TJ. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Biological Survey, Bulletin No. 18, 52. 



