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the first recorded instance of the capture of this warbler 

 in Alabama." (1890b). 



'"On September 6, last, I took the first specimen of this 

 warbler, and the only one that I ever saw. In April of 

 1878 three specimens of this rare warbler were met 

 with by Mr. N. C. Brown, at Coosada, Elmore county, 

 this State, near the junction of the Coosa and Tallapoosa 

 rivers. He secured two of these warblers. The one 

 captured by me on September 6, last, is then the third 

 specimen taken in this State, and the fourth observed. 

 It was doubless migrating, as the locality where it was 

 shot could hardly have been the summer habitat of Swain- 

 son's warbler. About eleven o'clock on that day, as I 

 was walking along the edge of a stream of water flowing 

 from an artesian well, and in a grove of hardwood trees, 

 a number of birds drinking and bathing in this stream 

 flew up from the water. Among them I observed a 

 curious looking little bird that seemed to watch me in- 

 tently from the crotch of a sapling where he was seated 

 motionless and silent. Without a moment's hesitation I 

 shot the bird, which proved to be Swainson's warbler." 

 (1891b). 



No. 652. Female-juv. Greensboro. Sept. 6, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



165. HELMITHEROS VERMIVORUS( Gmelin). 



Worm-Eating Warbler. 



"Oljserved during the autumn migrations only. The 

 first was observed last year on August 9, the last on Sep- 

 tember 19. It cannot be called a common bird, as during 

 the period between these two dates, though I made almost 

 daily observations, I never met, on one day, with more 

 than three specimens of this warbler." (1891b). 



No. 193. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 5, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 213. Male. Greensboro. Sept. 13, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 600. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 23, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 609. Female. Greensboro. Aug. 25, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



No. 610. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 25, 1890. W. C. Avery. 



166. VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA (Linnaeus). 



G0LDEN-WINGB3) WABRLER. 



"Observed, like the preceding species, only during the 

 autumn. F'irst seen this year on August 11, last on 

 ■October 4. Not common." (1891b). 



