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The first record of this species in the Appalachians is apparently- 

 based on a specimen collected on June 14, 1924, by P. C. Bibbee 

 (see Brooks and Legg, 1942, p. 76) in West Virginia. The bird 

 was taken at Buzzard's Rocks, Monongalia County, in what 

 Brooks and Legg describe as **a rugged region of hemlock-and- 

 rhododendron-clad mountains only a few miles from the Pennsyl- 

 vania border." 



Additional early records from the Appalachians are those of 

 T. D. Burleigh, who collected three specimens near Asheville, N.C., 

 on September 17, 1930, August 31, 1931, and September 14, 1932, 

 (in U.S. National Museum collection) and those of E. A. Williams 

 (1935, p. 458-459) who sighted several birds near Tryon, N.C., 

 on May 8, 1934. The Swainson's Warbler was established as a 

 breeding bird of the Appalachians in the summer of 1932 when 

 F. M. Jones discovered several nests in southwestern Virginia 

 near Bristol (Murray, 1939, p. 9). 



