i8o THE AM ERIC AX Mi'SEL'M JOCRXAL 



■Sork Cit\-. It is based on the capture of a male in Kings County, L. I. (Dutcher, 

 Auk, X, 1893, p. 277). 



*Black-lhroated Green Warbler i. Dcndroica vircns). In the immediate 

 vicinity of New York City this bird is found chiefly as a migrant, arriving from 

 the south late in April and returning about the middle of August. It is known 

 to breed at Highland Falls. N. Y. (Mearns), Bridgeport, Conn. (Averill), 

 Millers Place, L. I. (Dutcher, MS), and at Demarest, N. J., where on June 5, 

 1904. B. S. Bowdish found a nest built in a skunk cabbage about fourteen 

 inches from the ground (Auk, XXIII, 1906, p. 17). 



*Pine Warbler {Dcndroica vigorsi). This Warbler is of local distribution 

 in this vicinity. In northern New Jersey, the Lower Hudson Valley and south- 

 ern Connecticut it occurs only as a rare migrant, but on certain parts of Long 

 Island, where the scrub pines afford it congenial surroundings, it is not uncom- 

 mon and breeds. 



Palm Warbler {Dcndroica palmarum). This species is of rather rare but 

 regular occurrence here. One specimen was taken at Sing Sing, N. Y., April 29, 

 1882 (Fisher, Bull. N. O. C, VII, 1882, p. 249), two at Riverdale, N. Y.. in the 

 spring of 1877 (Bicknell, Bull. N. O. C, V. 1880, p. 182), and one struck the 

 Fire Island Lighthouse, September 23, 1887 (Dutcher, Auk, V, 1888, p. 182). 

 Braislin (Auk, XIX, 1902, p. 149) records it as "common" near Brooklyn 

 between September 25 and October 7, 1895, and Miller (Bird-Lore, V, 1903, p. 

 199) states that it was rather common near Plainfield, N. J., between Septem- 

 ber 22 and October 4, 1903. 



*Yellow Palm ^Varbler ; Yellow Redpoll (Dcndroica palmarum hypochry- 

 sca). A common migrant arriving from the south about April 10, and returning 

 late in September and in October. 



* Prairie Warbler (Dcndroica discolor). The distribution of the Prairie 

 \\'arbler in this vicinity is much like that of the Pine \Varbler. It is rare in 

 northern New Jersey and the Lower Hudson Valley, where however, it has 



been found breeding once (Highland Falls. 

 Mearns), but is not uncommon on some 

 parts of Long Island. At Bridgeport, 

 Conn., it is a common migrant and may 

 breed (.Averill). (See group, third floor). 



*Ovenbird [Sciiirns atirocapilltis) . The 

 Ovenbird is one of our abundant sum- 

 mer residents, arriving about May i and 



T- ^ remaining until the middle of October. (See 



Fig. 32. OvENBiRii. n x 



group, third floor). 



Northern W^ater-thrush (5"rH<n<j novcboracensis) . A common migrant, 

 passing northward during May and returning about September i. Cherrie 

 (Auk, XIX, 1902, p. 210) records the probable breeding of this species at Cold 

 Spring Harbor, L. I. 



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