Early dates of spring arrival are: Florida--St. Petersburg, March 25. Alabama--Autaugaville, April 3. Georgia--Savannah, March 25. South Carolina, April 1. Louisiana--New Orleans, March 30. Mississippi--Biloxi, March 31. Tennessee--Memphis, April 20. Texas--Point Bolivar, April 17. Late dates of fall departure are: Texas--Kemah, September 27. Tennessee--Sulphur Springs, September 9. Mississippi--Gulfport, October 6. South Carolina--Charleston, October 10. Georgia--Savannah, October 18. Alabama--Greensboro, September 6. Florida--Pensacola, October 2; Sombrero Key (4 struck lighthouse November 10). Dates of fall arrival are: Tamaulipas--Matamoros, August 29. Jamaica, October 1. _Casual records._--A specimen was recorded near Corsicana, Tex., on August 24, 1880; another was collected at Kearney, Nebr., on April 9, 1905; and one near Holly, Prowers County, Colo., on May 12, 1913. _Egg dates._--Florida: 3 records, May 7. Georgia: 35 records, May 4 to July 13; 19 records, May 29 to June 17, indicating the height of the season. South Carolina: 28 records, May 2 to June 30; 14 records. May 12 to June 12 (Harris). HELMITHEROS VERMIVOROS (Gmelin) WORM-EATING WARBLER PLATE 10 HABITS The breeding range of the worm-eating warbler covers much of the central portion of the United States east of the prairie regions. Its center of abundance seems to be in the vicinity of Pennsylvania, but it breeds less abundantly northward to southern Iowa, New York, and New England and southward to Missouri and to northern Alabama and Georgia, as well as in much of the intervening wooded region, where it is essentially a woodland bird. The distribution, migration, and habits of this warbler were but poorly understood by the early writers on American birds, and neither Wilson nor Audubon ever saw its nest; the latter's description of the nest, probably from hearsay, is entirely wrong. Frank L. Burns writes to me: "Bartram neglected to list this species, although he had furnished the type to Edwards 35 years earlier, and from the information furnished by the youthful Bartram it doubtless received its name, which is a misnomer perpetuated by Gmelin in his _Motacilla vermivora."_ Mr. Burns says further on in his notes: "I searched for 10 seasons before I found my first nest, and oddly enough it was through the parent bird carrying a 'worm' to its young; nevertheless I have since thought that a more fitting name for the species would have been hillside or laurel warbler." Hillside warbler would not be a bad name for this bird, which shows a decided preference for wooded hillsides covered with medium-sized deciduous trees and an undergrowth of saplings and small shrubbery. Often a running stream with numerous swampy places, overgrown with brier tangles and alders, bounds the base of the hill as an additional attraction. It is seldom seen outside of its favorite woods and returns year after year to the same chosen haunts.