Early dates of spring arrival are: Florida--Pensacola, March 26. Georgia--Savannah, April 4. South Carolina--Mount Pleasant, April 7. North Carolina--Bat Cave, April 16. Virginia--Richmond, April 19. West Virginia--Morgantown, April 4. District of Columbia--Washington, April 21. Pennsylvania--Beaver, April 29. New York--Jones Beach, April 20. Louisiana--Grand Isle, April 3. Mississippi--Bay St. Louis, April 5. Tennessee--Chattanooga, April 15. Kentucky--Bowling Green, April 3. Indiana--Brookville, April 17. Ohio--Columbus, April 18. Texas--Brownsville, March 29. Missouri--St. Louis, April 15. Iowa--Keokuk, April 21. Late dates of fall departure are: Missouri--St. Louis, September 20. Ohio--Austinburg, September 23. Kentucky--Middlesboro, September 27. Tennessee--Athens, October 5. Mississippi--Biloxi, October 11. Louisiana--Monroe, September 30. New York--Balston, September 23. Pennsylvania--Atglen, October 10. District of Columbia--Washington, September 13. West Virginia--Bluefield, September 19. Virginia--Salem, October 24. North Carolina--Andrews, October 11; Raleigh, November 3. South Carolina--Charleston, October 11. Georgia--Atlanta, October 10. Florida--Fernandina, October 3. _Casual records._--A specimen was collected in Bermuda on October 4, 1899. An individual was present at Wood Pond near Jackson, Somerset County, Maine, September 1 to 12, 1935; and one was reported seen at Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, on October 15, 1943, following a small hurricane. _Egg dates._--Connecticut: 7 records, May 27 to June 29. New Jersey: 4 records, May 21 to 30. Pennsylvania: 75 records, May 15 to June 30: 45 records, May 24 to June 5, indicating the height of the season (Harris). VERMIVORA CHRYSOPTERA (Linnaeus) GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER CONTRIBUTED BY WINSOR MARRETT TYLER PLATES 10, 11 HABITS The golden-winged warbler is one of the daintiest among this group of gay-colored little birds. Its plumage is immaculate white below and delicate pearl-gray on the upper parts, the crown and wings sparkle with golden yellow, and on the throat and cheeks is a broad splash of jet black. It is only within comparatively recent years that we have become well acquainted with the goldenwing: the older ornithologists, Wilson, Audubon, and Nuttall, knew it only as a rather uncommon migrant, drifting through from the south, and they had no idea where it bred. At a much later date J. A. Allen (1870) says of it: "This beautiful warbler has been taken, so far as I can learn, but few times in the western part of the State; it seems to be more common in the eastern, where it breeds." He cites the first record of the finding of a nest in the State in 1869. There is, however, an earlier record of its nesting. Dr. Brewer (1874) states: "Dr. Samuel Cabot was the first naturalist to meet with the nest and eggs of this bird. This was in May, 1837, in Greenbrier County, Va."