The Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrina) is a rare visitor to the southern California mainland (38 records reported, mostly from the interior), primarily in spring (Garrett and Dunn 1981). To my knowledge, it has never been recorded on any of the Southern California Channel Islands, despite several recent surveys of the islands' avifauna (Hunt and Hunt 1974; Jones and Diamond 1976; Diamond and Jones 1980; Hunt et al. 1980), as well as my own incidental observations while conducting pinniped research at San Miguel and San Nicolas Islands since 1978.