HOODED WARBLER 



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Spring Migration. — From its winter home the species reaches the 

 United States by a flight across the Gulf of Mexico, avoiding the 

 West Indies and (for the most part) southern Florida. 



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Atlantic Coast — 



Northern Florida 



Southeastern Georgia . . 

 Atlanta, Ga. (near) . . . 



Raleigh, N. C 



Asheville, N. C. (near) 



Lynchburg, Va 



French Creek, W. Va. . 



Washington, D. C 



Englewood, N. J 



Renovo, Pa. 



Mississippi ValUji — 

 New Orleans, La. . . , 

 Southern Mississippi 



Helena, Ark. , 



Eubank, Ky 



St. Louis, Mo 



Central Indiana ... 



Oberlin, O 



Keokuk, la. 



The Hooded Warbler has also been talcen at Chicago, 111., April 

 28, 1884, and May 3, 1895, and at Grinnell, la., May 18, 1888. The 

 Texas dates are at Refugio County, March 30, 1898, March 13, 1899; 

 San Antonio, March 31, 1890, April 7, 1894; Bee County, April 3, 

 1886, April 10, 1887. 



Fall Migration. — The fall migration is hardly in full swing before 

 the latter part of August. The earliest dates at Key West, Fla., are 

 August 30, 1887, and August 19, 1889; at Truxillo, Honduras, Sep- 

 tember 26, 1887, and in southeastern Nicaragua, September 24, 1892. 

 The bulk leave the northern breeding grounds by the middle of Sep- 

 tember and the last have been noted at Renovo, Pa., Sepember 26, 

 1900, October 13, 1903; Beaver, Pa., September 25, 1890, October 3, 

 1891; Englewood, N. J., September 15, 1886; Washington, D. C. 

 September 15, 1890; French Creek, W. Va., September 29, 1892; 

 Lynchburg, Va., October 10, 1899; Raleigh, N. C, October i, 1891 ; 

 Asheville, N. C, September 20, 1890, Sedan, Ind., October 5, 1893; 

 Brookville, Ind., October 20, 1884; Eubank, Ky., September 29, 1889; 

 New Orleans, La., October 19, 1895 and 1897, October 25, 1899. The 

 latest record for the United States is the — probably accidental — occur- 

 rence of this species at Germantown, Pa., November 19, 1887. 



