Todd : Birds of Erie and Presque Isle. 585 



203. Dendroica vigorsii. Pine Warbler. 



' ' Mr. Sennett has observed this bird in the Crawford-Erie district 

 only as a spring and fall migrant. ' ' (Warren, Birds of Pennsylvania, 

 1890, 291.) This statement is borne out by two specific records. 

 Mr. Bacon shot one specimen April 28, 1892, and on April 24, 1900, 

 we secured a single bird in the high woods north of Long Pond. It 

 seems to be rare everywhere in western Pennsylvania where there are 

 no tracts of its favorite red or yellow pines. 



204. Dendroica palmarum. Palm Warbler. 



Rather common on the Peninsula in 1900 as a spring and fall tran- 

 sient, frequenting the shrubbery, low bushes in open places, and even 

 the margins of the ponds, strikingly resembling certain species of 

 sparrows in its habits. It came on April 30, was common for a few 

 days only, and disappeared May 7. In the fall migration it was 

 present for a much longer period — September 4 to October 4, and 

 possibly still later. Mr. Bacon observed it in 1891 from May 1 to 

 12, and two specimens dated September 30, 1888, are in Mr. Sen- 

 nett's series. 



\_Dendroica discolor. Prairie Warbler. 



" In Erie and Crawford Counties Mr. Sennett has found the Prairie Warbler as a 

 rare spring and autumnal visitor." (Warren, Birds of Pennsylvania, 1890, 293). 

 This statement, although in all probability true, is too indeterminate as to the exact 

 locality to be admitted here, especially as it is unsupported by specimens. Dr. Kirt- 

 land states that this species breeds regularly in the vicinity of Cleveland {American 

 Journal Science and Arts, Second Series, XIII, 1852, 218), and Audubon gives Lake 

 Erie as its northern limit in the interior {Ornithological Biography, II, 1834, 68). 

 It is a rare species in western Pennsylvania.] 



205. Seiurus aurocapillus. Golden-crowned Thrush. 



A summer resident in this general region, but strangely enough not 

 recorded as such on the Peninsula, where it was met with on but two 

 occasions in 1900, May 14 and October 4, a single bird in each case. 

 Mr. Simpson saw two individuals here on April 26, 1902. Mr. Bacon 

 gives it as taken on May 1, 1894, May 4, 1892, and September 15, 

 1891. 



206. Seiurus noveboracensis. Water-thrush. 



The arrival of this species was noted in 1900 on May 8, one being 

 seen at the mouth of Mill Creek. A few days later it was observed on 

 the Peninsula, in the dense growth of bushes at the lower end of Ridge 

 Pond, where a specimen was taken May 17. Although at least one 



