36 NORTH AMBBICAN WAKBLEE8. 



the specimens coming both from lowlands and from as high as 7,700 

 feet in the mountains. 



The southernmost extension of the winter range is apparentlj' Colom- 

 bia, where the species has been' taken at Bogota,'' in the Santa Marta 

 region at Minca (2,000 feet)* and Las Nubes (5,000 feet)," and in 

 Antioquia at Medellin (5,000 feet),*^ and still higher in the mountains 

 (above 6,000 feet)/ During migration it has been taken on the north 

 coast at Bonda-^ and in the neighboring mountains at Pueblo Viejo 

 (8,000 feet).!/ ■ 



Sp^'ing migration. — The golden -winged warbler is a late migrant in 

 the spring. It has been noted south of the United States (in Colom- 

 bia) as late as March 20, 1898, while the earliest record of its spring 

 arrival in the Gulf States was made at Rising Fawn, northwestern 

 Georgia, April 11, 1885. At St. Louis, Mo., the average date of spring 

 arrival during six years was May 1 . The species has a more restricted 

 migratory range than would be judged from the extent of its breeding 

 ground. There are no records of its occurrence in spring in the 

 coast region of South Carolina, Georgia, or Alabama, and but one at 

 any point in Florida. Its only recorded occurrences on the coast 

 have been near Galveston, Tex., and in Louisiana and Mississippi. It 

 was not noted in spring by Loomis in Chester County, S. C, during 

 fourteen seasons of collecting; and Brimley in sixteen years at Raleigh, 

 N. C, saw it only twice in spring— May 7, 1889, and May 7, 1891. 

 It has been seen but twice in the mountains at Asheville, N. C. — April 

 22, 1893, and April 27, 1899. Farther north it has appeared on the 

 average at Frenchcreek, W. Va., May 2; Washington, May 3; Beaver 

 and Waynesburg, Pa., April 30; Portland, Conn., May 10; near Bos- 

 ton, May 10. The single record of the golden-winged warbler for 

 New Hampshire is Durham, May 24, 1898. The average date of the 

 first of the species seen at St. Louis is May 1, the earliest April 27, 

 1882. Other records which show average dates are: Chicago, May 5; 

 Rockford, 111., May 7; Waterloo, Ind., April 30; Wauseon, Ohio, May 

 4; Petersburg, Mich., May 4; southern Ontario, May 6; Keokuk-, Iowa, 

 April 30. Records of the earliest bird seen are: North Freedom, 

 Wis., May 10, 1902; Lanesboro, Minn., May 8, 1887; Elk River, Minn., 

 May 12, 1888; St. Vincent, Minn., May 9, 1896. An individual of the 

 species was taken at Coleto Creek, Texas, May 3, 1887, and one struck 

 the light at Port Bolivar, Tex., May 6, 1903. 



«Sclater, P. Z. S., p. 143, 1855; Cat. Am. Birds, p. 28, 1862; Baird, Eev. Am. Birds, 

 p. 175, 1864. 



&Sclaterand Salvin, Ibis, p. 117, 1880. 



« Specimen in the Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa. 



<«Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, p. 237, 1885. 



«Sclater and Salvin, P. Z. S., p. 494, 1879. 



/Allen, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Plist., XIII, p. 178, 1900; Auk, XVII, p. 367, 1900, 



(/Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XII, p. 160, 1898. 



