50 NOBTH AMERICAN WARBLERS. 



Some records of latest birds seen are: Grinnell, Iowa, September 

 21, 1887; Mackinac Island, Mich., September 2, 1889; Chicago, Octo- 

 ber 1, 1897; Toronto, September 28, 1898; Ottawa, September 13, 

 1889; North River, Prince Edward Island, August 25, 1890; St. John, 

 New Brunswick, September 17, 1889; Pittsfield, Me., September 30, 

 1898; Hartford, Conn., October 20, 1900; southeastern New York, 

 October 12, 1891; Berwyn, Pa., October 31, 1893. The latest recorded 

 southward migrants passed Raleigh, N. C, October 11, 1890, and Octo- 

 ber 13, 1891, and Asheville, N. C, October 5, 1891. The average of 

 the dates on which the last fall migrant was noted is October 9 at 

 Raleigh and September 29 at Asheville. At Eubank, Ky., the last 

 migrant recorded passed south September 18, 1889, and at New 

 Orleans, October 26, 1899; the average of last dates at New Orleans is 

 October 18. 



649. Compsotlilypis pitiaynmi nigrilora (Coues). Sennett Warbler. 



The Sennett warbler breeds in Texas along the lower Rio Grande 

 and in Mexico in Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and San Luis 

 Potosi. It winters at least as far north as Nuevo Leon, and has been 

 taken in the last week of Februar}^, 1880, on the Rio Grande near 

 Hidalgo. 



660. Dendroica tigrina (Gmel.). Cape May Warbler. 



Breeding range. — A few Cape May warblers breed in the mountains 

 of Jamaica, as attested by specimens in the National Museum, but the 

 rest pass northward through the northern Bahamas, Florida, and 

 eastern United States to their summer home. The species, apart 

 from the singular Jamaican exceptions, is confined strictly to the 

 Canadian life zone, the breeding range extending from northern New 

 England, northern Michigan, and northern Minnesota north to New 

 Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Hudson Bay, and nearly to Great Slave Lake. 



Winter range. — The Cape May warbler makes its principal winter 

 home in the West Indies, with its center of abundance at Haiti. It 

 has been taken as far north as Rum Ca}^ in the center of the Bahamas, 

 and as a rare or accidental winter species at Key West, Fla. Its win- 

 ter range extends to the islands of Jamaica, St. Croix, St. Thomas, 

 Guadeloupe," and Tobago.^ To the southwest, except for a single 

 individual taken in northern Yucatan'^ and another on the island of 

 Ruatan,^ the species is unrecorded; and as the general course of 

 migration is southeastward, both of these records are probably unusual. 



Sjyring migration. — Some records of sprmg arrival of the species 

 are as follows: Nassau, Bahamas, March 22, 1890; New Providence, 



a Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. VIII, p. 621, 1885. 

 ^ Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. X, p. 337, 1885. 

 cBoucard, P. Z. S., p. 440, 1883. 

 d Salvin, Ibis, p. 251, 1888, 



