BLACK-POLL WAEBLEE. 77 



of Brazil, and at Archidona^ and Sarayacu,^ central Ecuador. A 

 straggler was once taken at Valdivia,^ Chile. 



The black-poll warbler does not winter in the Bahamas or any other 

 part of the West Indies — a point that needs to be emphasized, as there 

 is a tendency on the part of writers to consider all records south of 

 the United States as wintering records. The bird is, however, a com- 

 mon visitor to the Bahamas both in spring and fall. It has been taken 

 at points ranging from the northern Bahamas to Watlings Island on 

 the east, Anguila^*^ on the west (where it was found abundant May 

 10-11, 1893), and Inagua at the south. In Cuba it occurs in migra- 

 tion in spring and fall, usually in small flocks. It has been recorded 

 also from Jamaica and Porto Rico. It was seen in great numbers 

 October 10, 1882, on Guadeloupe Island;^ and has been taken on Santa 

 Lucia,-^ Barbados, '^ Tobago, ^^ and Trinidad,^ the latter just bej^ond the 

 extreme end of the West Indies and near the northern coast of eastern 

 Venezuela. 



The specimen of the black-poll warbler taken at Tehuantepec City, 

 and noticed under D. castanea^ furnishes the only record for Mexico, 

 and was undoubtedly a straggler. 



Spring migration. — In the eastern part of the United States the 

 black-poll warbler is well known as a late migrant — one of the latest 

 among the warblers. There are no records of its being observed in 

 March anywhere north of its winter home, not even in the West Indies. 

 Gundlach says that when black-polls occur in spring in Cuba, they are 

 found in April. Bonhote noted the first spring arrivals on the island 

 of ^ew Providence, Bahamas, April 21, 1898, and at Cay Lobos light 

 April 15, 1901. Winch took his first specimen on the island of Inagua 

 April 23, 1891. The dates of Bonhote are later than some on which 

 the species has been noted at the Florida lighthouses. It struck 

 Sombrero Key lighthouse April 14 and 15, 1885; April 24 and 25, 

 1887, and April 18 and 30, 1888. 



Some dates of arrival in the southeastern part of the United States 

 are: Tortugas, April 26, 1890; Suwanee River, Florida, April 24, 1893; 

 Frogmore, S. C, April 29, 1885; Darien, Ga., April 28, 1890; Rising 

 Fawn, Ga., April 17, 1885; Shelby, Ala., April 27, 1898. A black- 



«Goodfellow, Ibis, p. 314, 1901. 



^Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., X, p. 650, 1885. 



cLandbeck, Arch, fur Naturg., p. 56, I, 1864. Anal. Univ. Chile, XXIV, p. 336, 

 1864. Philippi, Anal. Univ. Chile, XXXI, pp. 257, 328, 1868. Sclater, P. Z. S., 

 p. 337, 1867. James, New List Chilian Birds, p. 2, 1892. Reed, Catalogo de las 

 Aves Chilenas, p. 6, 1896. Philippi, Anal. Mus. Nac. Chile, p. 41, 1902. 



d Cory, Auk, VIII, p. 352, 1891. 



^Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, p. 622, 1885. 



/Allen, B. N. 0. C, V, p. 166, 1880. 



<J Feilden, Ibis, p. 482, 1889. 



^i Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, p. 32, 1862. 



« Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, p. 24, 1862. 



