Dendroica striata. Black-poll Warbler. — A common migrant in 

 both spring and fall on the Gulf coast in the vicinity of Tarpon Springs 

 and at other points where investigations have been carried on. At Tar- 

 pon Springs they arrive in spring about the last week in April and remain 

 till about May 12-15. 



Ctulf Coast In this connection it is of interest to record a great mortality among the 

 representatives of this species, during the spring migration of 1888. It is 



of Florida, so rare that one finds any birds dying or dead from other than accidental 

 causes, generally connected in some way with innovations caused by 

 the settlement of a country, as telegraph wires, light-houses, and the like, 

 that it seems worth while to give the following details of the epidemic. 

 It was apparently confined, so far as I am aware, to representatives of this 

 species alone, and only to those individuals which visited the Anclote 

 Keys and Hog Island. These Keys are four in number, and are four 

 miles from the main land, in the Gulf, and extend in a north and south 

 line for about twenty-five miles. I found in late April and early May 

 many Z>. striata dead, and others apparently ill unto death on these 

 islands, and though there was an infinite variety of other bird-life repre- 

 sented at the same points, yet no other species seemed to be suffering or 

 was found dead. Of Dendroica striata I picked up dead on April 29, 

 1888, in a short walk on South Anclote Key, upwards of twenty-five. 



In the fall the birds pass late in September and during October in 

 numbers. 



; Mr. Atkins considers the birds iis rare spring migrants at Punta Rassa, 



but common in the fall, and at Key West they are very common on both 



migrations. Florida. Scott. Auk, Vll. Jan. 1890.p. - *<» 



* 9. Dendrceca striata (Forst.). 



Ball, N, 0.0. 5,July,1880, P.iea 



