126 NORTH AMERICAN WARBLERS. 



Florida and not b}' wa}" of Cuba. Hooded warblers, fresh from their 

 trip across the Gulf, were observed in numbers around Perdido Light, 

 in northwestern Florida, March 22 and 26, 1885, and the}" were once 

 seen in large numbers at sea, when the}" still lacked 30 miles of 

 reaching the coast, during their migration from Central America to 

 Louisiana. The species begins in August to migrate south. The 

 earliest recorded date of migration in Chester County, S. C, is August 

 6. Southbound migrants have been noted at Key West, Fla., August 

 30, 1887, and August 19, 1889; at Bonacca Island, Honduras, in Sep- 

 tember; at Truxillo, Honduras, September 26, 188T, and in southeastern 

 Nicaragua, September 21, 1892. The date of arrival in Nicaragua 

 would allow sufficient time for the species to cross at one flight to 

 Yucatan and then proceed leisurely south along the coast. 



The bulk of the species leave the northern breeding grounds b}^ the 

 middle of September. The last fall migrants have been noted at Reno vo, 

 Pa., September 26, 1900, October 13, 1903; Beaver, Pa., September 25, 

 1890, October 3, 1891; Englewood, N. el., September 15, 1886; Wash- 

 ington, September 15, 1890; Frenchcreek, W. Va., September 29, 

 1892; Lynchburg, Ya., October 10, 1899; Raleigh, N. C, October 1, 

 1891; Asheville, N. C, September 20,1890; Sedan, Ind., October 5, 

 1893; Brookville, Ind., October 20, 1881; Eubank, Ky., September 29, 

 1889, and New Orleans, October 19, 1895 and 1897, October 25, 1899. 

 The latest record for the United States is of the probably accidental 

 occurrence of the bird at Germantown, Pa., November 19, 1887. 

 LTndoubtedly most of the migrants cross directly to the coast of 

 southern Mexico, and only a scattering few continue down the coast 

 of Texas. Few places along the Gulf coast from Corpus Christ i 

 southward are adapted to the needs of the bird until the heavy forests 

 begin again at Alta Mira, Tamaulipas. 



685. "Wilsonia pusilla (Wils. )• Wilson Warbler. 



Breeding range. — The combined breeding and migration ranges of 

 the eastern and western forms of the Wilson warbler cover the greater 

 part of the North American continent. The eastern subspecies scarcely 

 nests south of the Canadian life zone. It breeds in Nova Scotia, New 

 Brunswick, northern Maine, northern Minnesota, Manitoba, and north 

 to Newfoundland, Labrador, Hudson Bay, and Lake Athabasca. 

 There are records of its breeding in the Alleghenian zone at Ottawa, 

 Ontario," and at Pittsfield, Me.^ 



Winter range. — The principal winter range of the eastern form 

 seems to be the Atlantic slope of the mountains of Central America 

 from Guatemala to Costa Rica, a few individuals wintering as far 

 north as Yucatan. There is no record of the bird in South America, 



"Mclhvraith, Birds of Ontario, p. 382, 1894. 

 ^Morrell, Osprey, IV, p. 5, 1899. 



