BIRDS OF NEW JERSEY. 543 
storms they seek the sheltered woods. In the depths of 
winter they and the Winter-wren (Troglodytes hyemalis), 
the Creeper (Certhia Americana), and the Black-capped 
Titmouse (Parus atricapillus), enliven the woods, especially 
a wooded hillside with a southern exposure. Such a position 
is the most favorable by far, for finding these and other 
small winter resident birds. Unlike the Winter-wren C 
hyemalis), the Kinglets are not quarrelsome, but quietly 
from limb to limb, and tree to tree, flit incessantly, gather- 
ing the dormant insect life beneath the bark. To recur to 
the subject of their summer sojourn is it fair to suppose that 
those that do remain are old and too feeble to perform the 
journey north? If so, would they not also be too old for 
nidification and incubation? We think so; and so cannot 
account for the specimens in pin-feathers. 
At this date (November 24th), both species of Kinglet 
are very abundant about the trees in the streets, and are 
remarkably tame. 
9. The Worm-eating Warbler (Helmitherus vermivorus). 
10. Blue-winged Yellow-warbler (Helminthophaga pinus). 
ll. Golden-winged Warbler (Helminthophaga chrysoptera). 
12. Yellow-rumped Warbler (Dendroica coronata). 13. 
Hooded Warbler (Myiodioctes mitratus). 
We have now to take up the question of the geographical 
distribution of certain birds in a somewhat different manner, 
and to discuss, or rather to assert that we are not entitled to 
that usually or heretofore accredited to us. Of the five 
species of Warblers we have named above, four (except 
Dendroica coronata) have so far eluded us, although we have 
Searched earnestly for them, after the spring visitors had 
gone. Coming as they did with them, and leaving simulta- 
neously we supposed, like them, they, too, had gone north. 
This was our experience up to the time of completing our 
report for the “Geology of New Jersey.” Three summers 
have since passed, and as yet we have found not even one 
Specimen of the four species later than June 5th, and no 
