Todd : Birds of Erie and Presque Isle. 587 



specimen was taken as late as October 13. Other late fall records are 

 October r, 1875 (Sennett), and September 27, 1902 (Simpson). 

 In 1893 Mr. Bacon saw it first on May 6, and on June 8, 1892, he 

 found a nest with four eggs. 



210. Icteria virens. Yellow -breasted Chat. 



Audubon, who landed at Presque Isle late in August, 1824, [Orni- 

 thological Biography, I, 1831, 182-185), is responsible for the first 

 record of the Yellow -breasted Chat at this locality, as he says that it 

 extends "as far as the borders of Lake Erie in Pennsylvania" {ibid., 

 II, 1834, 223). Although not a few of Audubon's statements have 

 never been confirmed, and some of them are certainly errors, in the 

 present case the correctness of his observations has been demonstrated 

 after a lapse of seventy-five years. The writer found this species June 

 27, 1899, in a tract of shrubbery at the foot of Yellow Bass Pond, 

 and one was noted near Misery Bay on May 14 in 1900. It is evi- 

 dently a rare summer resident so far north. 



211. Wilsonia mitrata. Hooded Warbler. 



The Hooded Warbler was met with May 28 in considerable numbers 

 and to all appearances settled for the season in a tract of rich wood- 

 land along the lake front a few miles west of Erie, and a male was 

 secured. This would indicate that it is a not uncommon summer 

 resident in suitable situations on the mainland, although not noted at 

 all on the Peninsula. Mr. Sennett gives it as breeding in Erie County 

 (Warren, Birds of Pennsylvania, 1890, 300), and Mr. Bacon had a 

 specimen brought him May 9, 1901, which date probably indicates the 

 time of its vernal arrival. 



212. Wilsonia pusilla. Black-capped Warbler. 



A transient visitant, apparently not common, at least in the spring 

 of 1900, at which season it was detected on but two occasions, May 

 19 and 24. Upon its return in the fall it was first noted August 30-, 

 and occasionally thereafter until September 21. It was always met 

 with low down, in bushes or thick shruberry. May 25, 1889, is the 

 date of the only specimen of this species in Mr. Sennett's collection. 



213. Wilsonia canadensis. Canadian Warbler. 



Another transient species, not very common, having been found 

 from May 17 to 24, 1900, frequenting shrubbery. Mr. Bacon records 

 one specimen taken May 18, 1893, and Mr. Simpson mentions having 

 met with it in September, 1900, although it was not observed by us 

 at that season. 



