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1887. The earliest migrant of the year was seen at Savannah, Ga., 

 April s, 1894; near Atlanta, Ga., April 9, 1893, April 8, 1894, April 

 6, 1895, April 1, 1896, April 8, 1898, and April 10, 1900— average,, 

 April 7; at Rising Fawn, in the northwestern corner of Georgia, 

 April 16, 1885, and in the mountains near Asheville, N. C, April 24, 

 1892, April 32, 1893, and April 18, 1894. The seven years' average of 

 quite irregular records of earliest arrival at Kaleigh, N. C, is May 

 1. More Vegular dates indicate first arrival at Beaver, Pa., May 1; 

 Berwyn, Pa., May 7.; Brook ville, Ind., May 6, and Keokuk, Iowa, 

 May 7. The Alabama records are : Greensboro, April 6, 1888 ; Coosada, 

 April 9, 1878; and Shelby, April 18, 1898. The records for New 

 Orleans are April 2, 1881, April 1, 1894, March 30, 1895, and March 

 31, 1899. Texas dates are considerably later than those along the 

 Mississippi. From the vicinity of San Antonio, Tex., there are 

 records for live years, varying from April 8,1890, to April 18, 1901 — 

 average, April 14. A date almost identical — April 15 — is the 

 average of seven years' records from the extreme northern part of 

 Texas. This is only one of several cases in which the records of 

 spring arrival for northern Texas are fully as early as for the southern 

 part of the State. Taken in connection with the early dates of arrival 

 on the Louisiana coast, these dates seem to indicate that the individu- 

 als breeding along the rivers of northern Texas reach their breeding 

 grounds in a northwesterly direction from the northern part of the 

 Texas coast. 



The following table gives a good idea of the usual time of arrival of 

 the Kentuck}'^ warbler in the central Mississippi Valley : 



Spring arrival of the Kentucky warbler. 



J^all migration. — Fall records of migration of the Kentucky warbler 

 are not numerous. The southward movement begins the last of July, 

 and by the first of September most of the birds have left their breed- 

 ing grounds. The date of passage of the last-observed migrant of the 



