Eiverdale, where, unless otherwise stated, the 

 following observations were taken, the Carolinian Fauna is well 

 represented by the regular occurrence of such characteristic species 

 as Helmitheriis vermivorus, 



^ BuU.N.0.0. a.July. 1878.p//f 



e. /? B^'cA *^- 



Helmitherus vermivorus. Worm-eating Wabbler. This species 

 is not uncommon during the summer, usually arriving the second week in 

 May (May 2, this year) ; and, in 1876, I knew of at least five pairs that 

 reared their broods in the immediate vicinity. In the previous year I 

 secured a nest with complement of five eggs, partially incubated on June 

 13, and have found young birds able to fly on the 27th of the same 

 month. In very young birds, scarcely able to fly, the olive of the adult 

 " is only apparent on the remiges, the remainder of the plumage being of a 

 general brownish and deep buff'y suffusion, very similar to the color of dead 

 leaves, especially on the breast, and rendering their detection when among 

 the leaves of their favorite haunts very diflScult. Does not this adaptation 

 of color to environment in the ca^e of these helpless young appear to be an 

 instance of protective mimicry ? 



Bull. N.O.C. 8. July, 1878, vf%f-l30. 



Arrivals of Mig'y Birds, Spring-1B86, ^ 



Central Park, N. Y. City.-A. G'. Pame, Jr. 



May 13, llelmUlierus mrmiwrus, (639). Worm- 

 oatinsr Warbler. 



O.&O. XI. Aug. 1886. p. 125 



Butcher, Bare Lone Island Birds. 



Helmitherus vermivorus. Worm-eating Waruler.— Two specimensl 

 are in the collection, one presented by Mr. C. H. Baxter who secured it| 

 at Newtown, Long Island, and the other by Col. Pike who shot it in the! 

 Valley Grove Woods, now part of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Mr. 

 Akhurst states that during his active collecting he secured several of| 

 these Warblers from Kings and Queens Counties. Col. Pike states that 

 he has not seen this bird for many years and always considered it rare 

 on Long Island. Auk X, July . 1893 p 276-7. 



Ank, XIV, Jan., 1897, p.' 00. 



Helmitherus vermivorus.— This Warbler is not a lover of Long Island's 

 woods. Reaching the northern line of his breeding range at about this 

 latitude, and evidently following regularly a route which does not cross 

 Long Island, his occurrence here is doubtless an exception. A specimen 

 of the Worm-eating Warbler of the year was secured within the present 

 limits of Brooklyn on Sept. 16. 1896. This bird was feeding in company 

 with other Warblers in a low shrubby growth within the borders of a 

 .^yood.— William C. Braislin, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



