102 NORTH AMEEICAN WARBLERS. 



S. C, August 7; at Key West, Fla., August 19, 1889; at Rockport, 

 Tex., August 13, 1892; in Cuba and Porto Rico, the end of August, 

 and at San Jose, Cpsta Rica, August. The bulk of the species move 

 over this route about a month later and the birds are at times very 

 numerous. From the middle of September to the middle of October 

 great numbers strike the Florida lighthouses. The keeper of the 

 lighthouse at Fowey Rocks writes: "On the nights of October 10 and 

 11, 1891, 1 could have filled a mail bag with oven-birds and a few other 

 birds." 



Some records of final departure are: Aweme, Manitoba, September 

 23, 1899; Ottawa, September 29, 1900; North River, Prince Edward 

 Island, September 2, 1888; St. John, New Brunswick, September 29, 

 1891; Chicago, September 30, 1898; Waterloo, Ind., October 7, 1887; 

 Englewood, N. J., October 7, 1886; Philadelphia, October 9, 1887; 

 Washington, October 17, 1890; St. Louis, September 29, 1885; Eubank, 

 Ky., October 27, 1886; Raleigh, N. C, October 23, 1885; Asheville, 

 N. C, October 5, 1891; Chester County, S. C, October 29; Ariel, 

 Miss., October 19, 1897, and Sombrero Key lighthouse, November 11, 

 1888. 



675. Seiurus noveboracensis (Gmel. ) Water-Thrush. 



Breeding raiige. — The notes on the migrations of the two forms of 

 the water-thrush (Seiurus noveboracensis and S. n. notabilis) are so 

 mixed that it is impossible to say to which bird a great many of them 

 refer. While the two birds are separated during the breeding season, 

 their winter ranges overlap. In general it can be said that in summer 

 the eastern form {noveboracensis) occupies the district east of the 

 Mississippi River, breeding from northern Illinois, northern New 

 England, and the mountains of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to 

 Hudson Bay, Labrador, and Newfoundland. 



Winter range. — Both forms of the water-thrush pass southward in 

 winter to South America; hence, except when specimens are taken, it 

 can not be told which of the two forms is actually observed. In the 

 West Indies the eastern water-thrush is one of the widest-ranging 

 species. It is abundant in winter at least as far north as New Provi- 

 dence "■ and the larger islands and southeast to St. Croix and St. Thomas. 

 It is less common to the southeast where it has been taken at Antigua, 

 Guadeloupe,* Dominica, Grenada,'' St. Lucia,'' Barbados,* Carriacou,-'' 

 Tobago,!' and Trinidad." These last-mentioned islands complete the 

 course from the United States through the Bahamas and the Leeward 

 and Windward Islands to South America, and make it possible for the 



a Bonhote, Ibis, p. 510, 1899. e Feilden, Ibis, p. 482, 1889. . 



i-Cory, Auk, VIII, p. 49, 1891. /Wells, Auk, XIX, p. 348, 1902. 



c Wells, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, p. ffSalvin, Cat. Strick. Coll., p. 87, 1882. 



611. 1886. ''Chapman, Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



^ Allen, B. N. O. C, VI, p. 128, 1881. VI, p. 24, 1894. 



