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and at Omaha, Nebr., August 25 to September 10. The latest Florida record is of a bird that struck the light at Sombrero Key, September 25, 1888, and the latest from New Orleans is September 24. l893. The only {all record for the West Indies is of one taken at New Providence, Baha- mas, August 28, 1898.

The route of the Prothonotary Warbler in fall migration is interesting' because apparently the breeders of the Middle Atlantic states pass south— west to northwestern Florida and then take aseven-hundred-mile ﬂight directly across the Gulf of Mexico to southern Yucatan, instead of crossing to Cuba and thence to Yucatan.

What Bird is This?

Field rleuripnan.— Length, about Lon inrhss. Antivi- brownish. Edged with burly m1 hark and wings: below rut-eh paler. slrcaktd with hnﬂy and grayish; thrust white or whitish.

No1‘e.— Each number of BIRD-LURE contains a photograph, from specimens in the American Museum of Natural History, at some comparatively liltle~known bird. or birrl in obscure plumage, the name of which will be withheld until the succeeding number of the magazine. It being believed that this method of arousing the student‘s curiosity will result in impressing the bird’s characters on his mind far more strongly than if ils name were given with the picture.

The species ﬁgured in October is the male Mourning Warbler.