REPORT OE NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 105 
FAMILY MNIOTILTIDiE.—THE WARBLERS. 
Thirty-nine species of warblers have been taken in New Jersey. 
Of these, fourteen breed in the southern portions of the State; the 
Maryland yellow-throat, ovenbird, .yellow warbler and chat are the 
most abundant, though the chat does not occur beyond the northern 
border of the Carolinian fauna. The Kentucky, worm-eating, 
blue-winged and hooded warblers and the Louisiana water-thrush 
are also limited by the Carolinian fauna, and are not so common or 
generally distributed as the species of the first list, though they are 
plentiful in certain localities. The prairie, pine and parula 
warblers summer in considerable numbers, but are almost entirely 
restricted to the Pine Barren region of New Jersey during the 
breeding season. The redstart and black and white warbler also 
breed in small numbers in the southern counties, but become much 
more abundant northward and towards the mountains. 
Of the transients, the black-throated blue, myrtle, magnolia, 
chestnut-sided, black-poll, black-throated green, yellow palm and 
Canadian warblers and the water-thrush are the most abundant 
species, and together with the'redstart, parula and black and white 
warbler (which axe partially summer residents) form the bulk of 
the “Warbler Waves” of the migrations. The Nashville, bav- 
breasted, blackbumian, Connecticut and Wilson’s warblers occur 
regularly, but are not so common, while the golden-winged. Ten¬ 
nessee, Cape May, cerulean and mourning warblers, are decidedly 
rare. The remaining species can only be regarded as stragglers, 
i. e., prothonotary, orange-crowned, Townsend’s, Audobon’s, and 
yellow-throated warblers and Grrinnell’s water-thrush. 
Black and White Wabbles, ; Black and White Creeper - 
(Mniotilta varia). 
A black and white streaked warbler, with a broad white stripe on the top 
of the head and no yellow anywhere. 
Breeds in eastern North America. Winter's in Gulf -States to West Indies 
and northern South America. Abundant migrant, but rather rare as a sum¬ 
mer resident. 
