OF VIRGINIA 201 
Wilsonia citrina........ 0... cee eee ee Hooded Warbler. 
Dendroica discolor.............0.00. Prairie Warbler. 
Vermivora pinus............... Blue-winged Warbler. 
Icteria virens virens............. Yellow-breasted Chat. 
GENUS AGELAIUS. 
[498]. Agelaius pheniceus pheniceus (Linneus.) 
Red-winged Blackbird. 
[Marsh Blackbird]. 
Ranxer.—North America east of the Great Plains, 
except Gulf Coast, and Florida. Breeds from Ontario, 
Nova Scotia, and Quebee southward; winters mainly 
south of Ohio and Delaware valleys, locally north to 
Massachusetts. 
While the majority of these birds go further south in 
large flocks with the Purple and Boat-tailed Grackles, 
many winter with us. These remaining birds commence 
to build nests from two to three weeks earlier than the 
migratory ones, often having eggs by April 20th, while 
the regular season is at its height around May 5th to 10th. 
The early breeding birds often have second sets, thus 
extending the breeding time well into August, when at 
this period they commence to flock again. A great deal 
of damage is done by them in this section to the different 
grain crops. In the season of 1911, I had a small crop of 
popeorn totally ruined for marketable ears by these birds 
destroving the tassel end of each ear and eating out the 
half-hardened kernels while milk was still in them, Dur- 
ing the latter part of March and first week in April, many 
