YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER lai 



Nestling. — Above brownish gray, a whitish line behind eye and a white 

 spot below it; auriculars dusky; below white obscurely but finely streaked with 

 dusky. 



General Distribution. — Eastern United States east of the Alle- 

 ghenies ; north to Maryland. 



Summer Range. — From northern Florida, east of the Allegheny 

 Mountains, north regularly to Virginia; occasional in Maryland and 

 on the Choptank River in southeastern Delaware; accidental in Penn- 

 sylvania (Beaver, Chester, and Delaware Counties), New Jersey 

 (Trenton, May 29, i860). New York (Crow Hill, L. I.), Cormecticut 

 (Hartford and New Haven), Massachusetts (Dedham, November 4, 

 1866). North in the interior to West Virginia (Kanawha Co.). 



Winter Range. — Florida — rarely South Carolina — the Bahamas 

 and the Greater Antilles ; casual in Yucatan. 



Spring Migration. — Wintering so abundantly in southern Florida, 

 but little can be said of the migration of the Yellow-throated Warbler 

 in the Gulf states. The northward movement begins early in March, 

 Gainesville, Fla., being reached March 2 and Jacksonville, Fla., March 

 5. The average date of arrival for fifteen years at Raleigh, N. C, is 

 March 26, earliest March 13, 1890; the average at Asheville, N. C, 

 for four years is April 21, the earliest April 13, 1893. 



Fall Migration. — The Yellow-throated Warbler is one of the very 

 earliest fall migrants beginning its southward movement by the middle 

 of summer (Key West, Fla., July 25) and reaching Cuba the latter 

 part of July. The last one noted at Washington, D. C, was September, 

 4, 1890; at Raleigh, N. C, September 17, 1886, and many migrants 

 continue to pass through Florida during the whole month of October. 



The Bird and its Haunts. — About the first of March a new voice 

 is added to the swelling chorus of bird music in middle Florida. It 

 is no lisping lay, heard only by attentive ears, but a loud, ringing song 

 which stands out with strongly characterized distinctness. After the 

 lapse of twenty years I well recall the excitement with which I first 

 heard it and my vain efforts to discover the singer in the upper 

 branches of a heavily timbered, densely undergrown, wet 'hammock' of 

 magnolia, maple, hickory, bay and other deciduous trees. 



As the migration progressed the bird became abundant in the 

 cypresses and often visited neighboring pines where it could be observed 

 to better advantage. Even here, however, it is by no means so readily 

 observed as are more active Warblers. When singing it remains 

 in one position for many consecutive minutes, and at all times 

 it is comparatively deliberate in its movements resembling the Pine 

 Warbler rather than the fluttering Warblers in its manner of feeding. 



