The Prothonotary Warbler in Arizona
The Prothonotary Warbler in Arizona.-The Prothonotary Warbler (Protonotaria citrea) is characteristically a bird of low, wet, wooded places, both in periods 6f migration and nesting. It is found most commonly in regions of not over 500 feet elevation above sea level, but does occur sparingly up to loo0 feet elevation. This warbler is most abundant in the south, from the Brownsville district of Texas to the Atlantic seaboard, occurring north in decreasing numbers, to southern Ontario, southern Michigan, central Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota; its westward range-limits are central Iowa, eastern Nebraska, central Kansas, central Oklahoma, and eastern Texas. It is therefore surprising that the Prothonotary Warbler should be taken twice in Arizona, approximately 800 miles west of its normal range, in a dry region, and at relatively high elevations. The first Arizona specimen recorded was taken by E. W. Nelson, on May 1,1884, at Tucson, Arizona, at an elevation of 2300 feet (Swarth, Pac. Coast Avif. No. 10, 1914:67). The second record for Arizona is that of an adult male, now in my collection, taken by H. H. Kimball, September 8, 1924, along Cave Creek in the Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, about four miles northeast of Paradise, at an elevation of approximately 5000 feet.-Max M. PEET, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 4,1848.
