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. 



M^ACE 



No. of 

 years' 

 record 



Average date of 

 spring arrival 



Earliest date of 

 spring arrival 



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 Valley — 

 New Orleans, La. . . , 

 Southern Mississippi 



Helena, Ark 



Eubank, Ky 



St. Louis, Mo 



Central Indiana 



Oberlin, O 



Keokuk, la 



6 

 3 

 9 

 14 

 7 

 4 

 7 

 5 

 7 

 4 



10 

 3 

 7 

 7 

 6 

 6 

 4 

 5 



March 28 

 April 4 

 April 10 

 April 18 

 April 19 

 April 29 

 April 17 

 May 2 

 May 4 

 May 13 



March 22 

 March 30 

 April 11 

 April 14 

 April 23 

 April 29 

 May 9 

 May 10 



March 19, 1885 

 March 29, 1902 

 April 3, 1902 

 April 10, 1893 

 April 12, 1893 

 April 23, 1900 

 April 20, 1891 

 April 27, 1892 

 May 2, 1897 

 May 10, 1901 



March 13, 1897 

 March 22, 1902 

 April 3, 1898 

 April 8, 1890 

 April 17, 1883 



May 

 May 



8, i9°5 

 5, 1898 



The Hooded Warbler has also been taken 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 to, 1899; Raleigh, N. C, October 1, 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. 



