— 74 — 



Highland Falls, May 17, 1875 (Mearns, Birds Hudson Highlands 

 P- 154). 



*299. Dendroica pensylvanica {Linn.). Chestnut-sided 

 Warbler. (659.) — Eastern North America, breeding from central 

 Illinois and northern New Jersey north to Manitoba and New- 

 foundland, and southward along the crest of the Alleghanies to 

 South Carolina. With us it is a common migrant, and, in northern 

 New Jersey, a rare summer resident. It arrives early in May, and 

 the return migration occurs between August 10 and October 1. 



*30o. Dendroica castanea {Wils.). Bay-breasted Warbler. 

 (660. j— Eastern Northern America, breeding from northern Michi- 

 gan and northern New England northward to Hudson Bay and 

 Labrador, and wintering in Central America. As a rule the Bay- 

 breasted is one of our rarest transient Warblers but during some 

 seasons it is found in numbers. It passes northward about the 

 middle of May and returns in September. 



*30i. Dendroica striata {Forst.). 

 Blackpoll Warbler. (661.) — ''Eastern 

 North America to the Rocky Mountains, 

 north to Greenland, the Barren Grounds, 

 and Alaska, breeding from northern New 

 England northward. South in winter to 

 northern South America." The Blackpoll 



is one of our most abundant migrants, FlG 2 o Blackpoll 

 and is the last of the Warblers to reach Warbler. 



us in the spring. It passes northward from May 20 to 30 and 

 returns on its southern journey in September. 



*302. Dendroica blackburniae (Gme/.). Blackburnian 

 Warbler. (662.) — Eastern North America, breeding from northern 

 Minnesota and southern Maine northward to Labrador, and south- 

 ward along the Alleghanies to South Carolina, and wintering in 

 the tropics In this vicinity it is a rather uncommon spring 

 migrant, passing northwaid during the first half of May, but is not 

 uncommon some years during its return migration in September. 



303. Dendroica dominica (Linn.). Yellow-throated 

 Warbler. (663.) — Southern United States, breeding as far north 

 as Virginia, and wintering from Florida southward. There is but. 

 one record of the occurrence of this southern species near New 

 York City. It is based on the capture of a male in Kings County,. 

 L. I. {Dutcher, Auk, X, 1893, p. 277) 



