The Black-Throated Green Warbler in Arizona
The Black-throated Green Warbler in Arizona
The first published record of the occurrence of the Black-throated Green Warbler (Dendroica virens) in Arizona is that by A. K. Fisher (Condor, 6, 1904, p. 81) mentioning a bird collected on May 9, 1895, by R. D. Lusk in Ramsay Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County. This record probably was the basis for the listing of this warbler as accidental in Arizona in the third and fourth editions of the A. 0. U. Check-list of North American Birds. In his distributional list of Arizona birds, H. S. Swarth (Pacific Coast Avifauna No. 10, 1914, p. 70) gives Fisher’s record as the only one for the state. Recently L. L. Walsh (Auk, 50, 1933, p. 124) records seeing a male of this species in the Huachuca Mountains, but does not give the date, although, judging from the rest of his account, it was probably in August, 1932.
On May 30, 1933, I collected an adult male Dendroica virerzs virens on the brink of the, gorge of the Colorado River a short distance east of Vulcan's Throne in Toroweap Valley, Mohave County. The bird had come up to investigate the commot.ion caused among a small group of Western Gnatcatchers by my attempts to attract them within collecting range. The specimen is now no. 63250 in the collection of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology.
Seth B. Benson
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley, California, September 23, 1933
