290 BIRDS OF ALABAMA 



brushy pastures and dry hillsides covered with a mixed second 

 growth of hardwood trees. 



NASHVILLE WARBLER : Vermivora ruficapiUa ruficapilla 



(Wilson). 



State records. — The Nashville warbler migrates chiefly 

 through the Mississippi Valley, and is very rare in the South- 

 eastern States. There is but one record from Alabama — a 

 specimen collected by A. A. Saunders, at HoUins, April 18, 

 1908.* Mr. Saunders wrote me (April, 1916) that this speci- 

 men, being badly mutilated, was not preserved and that he 

 has since felt some doubt as to the correctness of his identifica- 

 tion. 



ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER : Vermivora celata 

 celata (Say). 



State records. — The orange-crowned warbler occurs rarely 

 in Alabama as a migrant and winter visitant. Its usual mi- 

 gration route in spring is through the Mississippi Valley. 

 Brown records two seen at Coosada in 1878 — February 12 and 

 April 15t ; Saunders saw one at Woodbine, March 27, 1908 ',% 

 I secured one at Orange Beach, January 28, 1912, and one at 

 Ashford, November 29, 1916. 



General habits. — Allison, writing of its habits as observed 

 in Mississippi in winter, says : 



Its favorite haunts are usually wooded yards or parks, where 

 the evergreen live oak and magnolia can be found; but I have 

 seen it most commonly among the small trees on the border of 

 rich mixed woods, above an undergrowth of switch cane. Conif- 

 erous trees it seems not to care for, though I have seen it in the 

 cypress swamps. * * * The only note heard is a sharp, per- 

 sistent chipping, many times repeated, as the bird moves about 

 the tree, often moving its wings restlessly, like a kinglet.** 



♦Saunders, A. A., The Auk, vol. 25, p. 421, 1908. 



tBrown, N. C, Bull. Nutt. Ornith. Club, vol. 3, p. 173, 1878. 



:(Saunders, A. A., The Auk, vol. 25, p. 421, 1908. 



•♦Allison, A., in Chapman, Warblers of North Amer., pp. 88, 89, 1907. 



