Life histories of North American wood warblers, Part 1 (of 2)Bent, Arthur Cleveland
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Life histories of North American wood warblers, Part 1 (of 2)
Bent, Arthur Cleveland
Birds -- North America; Passeriformes; Wood warblers
_Casual records._--Two specimens of Virginia's warbler have been taken
in western California: in San Diego County, on September 3, 1931; and at
Prisoner's Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, on September 8, 1948. Virginia's
warbler has been reported as occurring in Nebraska and Kansas, but there
is no record of a specimen having been taken in either State.
_Egg dates._--Arizona: 10 records, May 17 to June 21; 5 records, May 25
to June 4.
Colorado: 6 records, June 1 to 26.
Nevada: 3 records, June 8 to 15.
VERMIVORA CRISSALIS (Salvin and Godman)
COLIMA WARBLER
CONTRIBUTED BY JOSSELYN VAN TYNE
HABITS
Described in 1889 from a single specimen collected by W. B. Richardson
in the Sierra Nevada de Colima, Mexico, this handsome warbler was, in
1932, still known from only a dozen museum specimens, and not a word had
been recorded on its habits. In that year a University of Michigan
expedition found the Colima warbler to be common in the higher forests
of the Chisos Mountains of southwestern Texas and made the first
discovery of its nest and eggs. The basis for the inclusion of this
warbler in the A. O. U. Check-List had been a single specimen collected
by Frederick M. Gaige in the Chisos in 1928 (Van Tyne, 1929).
The range of the Colima warbler has been recorded only very sketchily,
but Bangs (1925) was probably correct in surmising that the specimens
from southern Mexico (Colima and Michoacán) were migrant birds. The
closely related Virginia's warbler, which nests in the Rocky Mountain
States, winters mainly in Michoacán, Guerrero, and Jalisco. Recently R.
T. Moore (1942) added a second, more southerly, locality in Michoacán
and one in eastern Sinaloa to the known southern range of the Colima
warbler. The breeding range is apparently restricted to the highlands of
northeastern Mexico and the Chisos Mountains of southwestern Texas. In
Texas the Colima warbler occurs at altitudes between 6,000 and 7,500
feet (Van Tyne, 1936); in Coahuila, apparently, only above altitudes of
approximately 7,500 feet (Burleigh and Lowery, 1942). Records from the
southern part of its range, however, show a greater altitudinal spread.
The type specimen was taken in Colima at about 8,000 feet, and R. T.
Moore (1942) reports two November specimens, one taken at 9,500 feet in
northeastern Michoacán, the other at 5,200 feet in Sinaloa. These
represent the extremes of the known altitudinal range.
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