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have been reported from Loveland, Colo., May 11, 1889, and from 

 Great Falls, Mont, May 28, 1890. 



Fall mhjration. — No Townsend warblers were seen at Columbia 

 Falls, Mont., after August 17, 1895, nor at Chilliwack, British Colum- 

 bia, later than September 12, 1888. 



669. Dendroica occidentalis (Towns.). Hermit Warbler. 



The hermit warbler breeds from the higher mountains of California 

 to southern British Columbia in the Pacific coast district of the 

 United States. It winters in the pine forests of Mexico and Guate- 

 mala at an elevation of 3,500 to 10,000 feet. Early in April it 

 enters the United States, being reported from Oracle, Ariz., April 

 12, 1899, and the Huachuca Mountains, Arizona, April 9, 1902. 

 Records of the first seen in California are: Campo, April 27, 1877, 

 and Julian, April 25, 1884. A hermit warbler was noted at Burrard 

 Inlet, British Columbia, April 20, 1885. In the fall the species has 

 been noted as late as September 22 in Arizona and October 9 in 

 southern California. 



670. Dendroica kirtlandi Baird. Kirtland Warbler. 



Breeding range. — The first nests of the Kirtland warbler known to 

 ..cience were taken in Oscoda and Crawford counties, Mich.^ Several 

 young birds and a single o^g^ were secured «Iuly 8 to 11, 1903. The 

 following 3^ear a nest with five eggs was taken in Roscommon Count}^ 

 Mich. 



Win.ter range. — The records of the distribution and migration of 

 this, the rarest warbler of the eastern part of the United States, have 

 recently been collected* and elaborated. From these data it appears 

 that the Kirtland warbler is a winter resident of the Bahamas as far 

 south at least as the Caicos group. It has been taken in winter on the 

 Berr}^ and Andros groups, and on Eleuthera, New Providence, Green 

 Cay, Watlings, and Athels islands. It has also been taken on the 

 Abaco group, but only in spring and fall migration. 



Spring migration. — The southernmost point in the United States at 

 which occurrence of the Kirtland warbler in spring has been noted is 

 West Jupiter, Fla., just northwest from the Andros and New Prov- 

 idence islands, where migrants from these islands would most naturally 

 reach the mainland. Here one was seen April 19, 1897, and another 

 April 27. The next point northward at which the bird has been seen 

 in spring is St. Helena Island, South Carolina, where it was noted on 

 April 27 and May 3. During the first week in May the species is 

 recorded as occurring at St. Louis, Cincinnati, Glen EUyn, 111., and 

 Wabash, Ind., and during the next week at Cleveland and Oberlin, 



« Adams, Science, XVIII, p. 217, 1903; Wood, Biil. Mich. Orn. Club., V, pp. 

 3-13, 1904. 



& Chapman, Auk, XV, p. 289, 1898; XVI, p. 81, 1899. 



