46 NOKTH AMEKICAN WAKBLEKS. 



Campeche, and Yucatan, both on the coast and in the lower districts. 

 It is found sparingly southwest to Oaxaca and reaches the Pacific slope 

 at Tehuantepec City. It is not common in winter in northern Vera 

 Cruz, though it has been taken even farther north at Alta Mira, 

 Tamaulipas," February 16, 1895, and a few have been seen in winter 

 at Tampico, Tamaulipas.*, It is found on the islands off the east coast 

 of Yucatan, the islands of Euatan and Bonacca, Honduras," and the 

 Swan Islands.** It ranges southward to the table-lands of northern 

 Guatemala as far as Coban, but there are no records of its occurrence 

 in southern Guatemala, in Costa Rica, or in South America. The 

 southernmost records are of specimens taken during the winter of 

 1886-87 on the island of Old Providence off the coast of Nicaragua,^ 

 and on October 26, 1892, in southeastern Nicaragua.-'' The bird has a 

 wide range through the West Indies. It is abundant in Cuba, occurs 

 throughout the Bahamas and all of the Greater Antilles, and is known 

 from St. Croix, St. Thomas, St. Eustatius, St. Christopher, Guade- 

 loupe, and Barbados of the Lesser Antilles. It winters abundantly in 

 the southern Bahamas, regularly in southern Florida, and irregularly 

 north to central Florida. 



Spring migration. — After spending fully five months in its winter 

 home the parula warbler starts on its northward journey. The earliest 

 records of striking at the Sombrero Key lighthouse are March 3 and 

 7, 1887, March 10 and 11, 1888, and March 3 and 11, 1889. The flights 

 of March, 1887, were light, and those of March, 1888, medium, while 

 that of March 3, 1889, was one of the heaviest ever witnessed at Som- 

 brero Key lighthouse. Many parulas were seen around Perdido light- 

 house, northwest Florida, March 22, 1885, and the earliest migrants 

 arrived the previous day at Pensacola, Fla. The average date of 

 arrival for four years at Frogmore, S. C. , is March 23, and that for 

 seven j'-ears at Raleigh, N. C, April/ 8. 



Other records of average dates of arrival are: Frenchcreek, W. Va., 

 April 22; Washington, April 26; Beaver, Pa., April30; Germantown, 

 Pa., May 1; Renovo, Pa., Maj^ 5; Englewood, N. J., May 4; south- 

 eastern New York, May 2; central New York, Maj'-S; central Connect- 

 icut, May 6; Boston, May 8; St. Johnsbury, Vt., May 9; southern 

 New Hampshire, May 9; southern Maine, May 10; Quebec, May 14; 

 southern New Brunswick, May 15. The first arrival was noted at 

 Piotou, Nova Scotia, Maj' 23, 1891, and at North River, Prince Edward 

 Island, May 30, 1890. The average of many years' observation in 



a Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVIII, p. 631, 1896. 



6Renardo, O. & O., XI, p. 118, 1886. 



«Salvin, Ibis, p. 247, 1888. 



<«Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., X, p. 575, 1888. 



f Cory, Auli, IV, p. 180, 1887. 



/Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., XVI, p. 484, 1893, 



