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Setophaga ruticilla. From the season at which these were observed, 
they evidently bred in the locality in question. They were most of 
them abundant. 
“ In the high valley of Henderson County, and on the Black, Rich, 
and other mountains in southern North Carolina, in September, 
1869, I observed the following: Junco hyemalis , Vireo solitarius, 
Dendroeca coronata , D. maculosa , D. virens , D. coerulescens, D. Black - 
burnice , Panda Americana , Mniotilta varia , Myiodioctes mitratus , 
Setophaga ruticilla. These were also abundant, and no doubt bred 
in the localities in question.’’ 
Of the species mentioned of any direct value to the present con- 
sideration, the only one which has actually been ascertained to breed 
with regularity in the southern Alleghanies is the Slate-colored 
Snowbird. Although it is very probable that with this species are 
associated in the breeding season most of the others mentioned, the 
evidence quoted is hardly sufficient to establish this. Again accept- 
ing the Snowbird and, of the latter enumeration, the Blue- Headed 
* 
Vireo and Yellow-rumped Warbler in addition, all the species men- 
tioned, — contrary to what most published records of migrations would 
lead us to suppose, but which data is at hand abundantly to prove, — 
enter upon their southward migration in August, most of them, in- 
deed, so early as the middle of that month; therefore, the fact of the 
occurrence of any of these birds in the late summer or early autumn 
in the southern Alleghanies is by no means conclusive evidence that 
they have bred there. 
Most of the birds referred to, however, have been recorded as 
breeding in southern Pennsylvania, although the fact appears to 
have been very generally overlooked. In the Bairds' “ List of Birds 
found in the vicinity of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Penn ”* 
the following named species, of interest to the present consideration, 
* Sillim. Am. Journ., XVI, 1844, 261-273. 
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