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along both coasts of southern Florida. Yet judging by the state- 

 ments of local observers, the species is rare from central Florida to 

 the southern Alleghenies. At Puntarasa, a third of the way up the 

 west coast of Florida. Atkins considers it common in fall and rare in 

 spring; a little farther north at Tarpon Springs, according to Scott, 

 it is rare in spring and absent in the fall: at Gainesville. Fla., Chap- 

 man saw but six individuals in the entire spring of 18ST; and at 

 Palatka, Fla., Hasbrouck saw none. North of Florida three good 

 observers in Alabama and two in Georgia do not report the species. 

 In live years' collecting in South Carolina it was not noted by Hoxie, 

 and onh^ four out of nine observers in North Carolina report its 

 occurrence. 



655. Dendroica coronata (LinQ.). Myrtle TVarbler. 



Br et^ding range, — The myrtle warbler breeds generalh'in Labrador, 

 Newfoundland, Quebec, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and 

 northern New England, and locally in southern Maine, reaching there 

 its southernmost breeding ground at ocean level. It breeds commonh^ 

 in the mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont and in the Adiron- 

 dacks, less commonly in the Catskills and the elevated portions of 

 Massachusetts, and is rare or accidental in summer at Utica and Buf- 

 falo, N. Y. The regular breeding range extends westward from the 

 Adirondacks along the north shore of Lake Huron to the northern 

 peninsula of Michigan and the hill district of northeastern Minnesota. 

 It has been found breeding from ^Manitoba to central Keewatin and 

 through the Northwest Territories, British Columbia, and Alaska, to 

 the shores of the Arctic Ocean. There is one record of the species 

 breeding on the island of Jamaica. A female in worn plumage taken 

 at Ke}^ West,^- July 28, 1888, may have nested in a southern latitude. 

 A specimen (young of the year) taken at Ciudad Durango, Mexico, 

 July 27,* was moulting into the first autumn plumage. 



'Winter range.— 'Yh^ myrtle warbler is the hardiest of the warblers 

 of the United States, and spends the cold season as far north as south- 

 eastern Kansas, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, and southern New 

 England. It winters regularly and commonly in North Carolina, 

 even at an altitude of 2,000 feet, and along the coast and a few miles 

 inland it occurs with more or less frequency as far north as Massachu- 

 setts, and even to Cape Elizabeth, Me. At AVorcester. Mass.. in the 

 central part of the State, it winters regularly but sparingly. Although 

 the winter and summer homes of the species in Massachusetts are thus 

 not widely separated, it is not to be supposed that the winter birds 

 are the same individuals that breed in the elevated parts of the State; 

 these latter doubtless have passed south. 



« Scott, Auk, V, p. 430, 1888. 



&Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, p. 314, 18S5. 



