102 NOETH AMERICAN WARBLERS. 



S. C, August 7; at Key West, Fla., August 19, 1889; at Kockport, 

 Tex., August 13, 1892; in Cul)a and Porto Rico, the end of August, 

 and at San Jose, Costa Rica, August. The bulk of the species move 

 over this route about a month later and the birds are at times ver}^ 

 numerous. From the middle of September to the middle of October 

 great numbers strike the Florida lighthouses. The keeper of the 

 lighthouse at Fowe}^ Rocks writes: "On the nights of October 10 and 

 11, 1891, 1 could have tilled a mail bag with oven-birds and a few other 

 birds. '^ 



Some records of final departure are: Aweme, Manitoba, September 

 23, 1899; Ottawa, September 29, 1900; North River, Prince Edward 

 Island, September 2, 1888; St. John, New Brunswick, September 29, 

 1891; Chicago, September 30, 1898; Waterloo, Ind., October 7, 1887; 

 Englewood, N. J., October 7, 1886; Philadelphia, October 9, 1887; 

 Washington, October 17, 1890; St. Louis, September 29, 1885; Eubank, 

 Ky., October 27, 1886; Raleigh, N. C, October 23, 1885; Asheville, 

 N. C, October 5, 1891; Chester County, S. C, October 29; Ariel, 

 Miss., October 19, 1897, and Sombrero Kev lighthouse, November 11, 

 1888.' 



675. Seiurus noveboracensis (Gmel. ) AVater-Thrnsh. 



Breeding range. — The notes on the migrations of the two forms of 

 the water-thrush {Seiurus novehoraceiisis and S. n. notahilis) are so 

 mixed that it is impossible to say to which bird a great manj^ of them 

 refer. While the two birds are separated during the breeding season, 

 their winter ranges overlap. In general it can be said that in summer 

 the eastern form {/loveboracensis) occupies the district east of the 

 Mississippi River, breeding from northern Illinois, northern New 

 England, and the mountains of Penns^dvania and West Virginia to 

 Hudson Ba}', Labrador, and Newfoundland. 



Whiter range. — Both forms of the water-thrush pass southward in 

 winter to South America; hence, except when specimens are taken, it 

 can not be told which of the two forms is actuall}^ observed. In the 

 West Indies the eastern water-thrush is one of the Avidest-ranging 

 species. It is abundant in winter at least as far north as New Provi- 

 dence" and the larger islands and southeast to St. Croix and St. Thomas. 

 It is less common to the southeast where it has been taken at Antigua, 

 Guadeloupe,^ Dominica, Grenada,^ St. Lucia,''' Barbados,^ Carriacou,^ 

 Tobago.^/ and Trinidad.^^ These last-mentioned islands complete the 

 course from the United States through the Bahamas and the Leeward 

 and Windward Islands to South America, and make it possible for the 



« Bonhote, Ibis, p. 510, 1899. ^ Feilden, Ibis, p. 482, 1889. 



^'Cory, Auk, VIII, p. 49, 1891. /Wells, Auk, XIX, p. 348, 1902. 



c Weils, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IX, p. G'Salvin, Cat. Strick. Coll., p. 87, 1882. 



611, 1886. /'Chapman, Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 



f/ Allen, B. N. O. C, VI, p. 128, 1881. A^I, p. 24, 1894. 



