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May 29, 1878. Mr. C. F. Batchelder has a male which he shot on this date in 

 an apple tree close to his house on Kirkland Street, Cambridge. 



May 21, 1882. Three males were killed today by a man named Clark who was 

 collecting for Mr. C. J. Maynard. In recording these specimens, Mr. H. A. Purdie 

 states' that they were " shot near Fresh pond, Cambridge," but my notes give the 

 locality as Belmont. At the time they were taken the whole Cambridge Region was 

 flooded with migrating Warblers of various species. 



May 27-29, 1884. On May 27 a male Mourning Warbler was seen in the Maple 

 Swamp by Mr. Charles R. Lamb who, two days later, killed what was apparently 

 the same bird within a few yards of the same spot. 



June 2, i8go. A male was seen by me today in our garden. It was singing 

 freely. 



June 6, 1890. A male was noted at Waverley by Mr. Walter Faxon. 



May 27, 1891. A male was seen by Mr. Walter Faxon near Sherman's Pond, 

 Waltham. 



September 12, 1891. I have a skin of a young male which was killed on this 

 date in Cambridge (probably in the Fresh Pond Swamps) by Mr. Wilmot W. Brown. 



May 27, 1892. Mr. William P. Hadley shot a male in Arlington. The speci- 

 men is now in my mounted collection. 



June 3, 1893. A male was shot in Arlington by Mr. William P. Hadley. 



June 4, 1894. Mr. Walter Faxon saw a male in Arlington. 



June I, igoi. A male was seen in Norton's Woods by Miss Bertha T. Parker. 



September 26-27, 1901- On the earlier of these dates a young male appeared 

 ip our garden, remaining there until the following day when I shot it. The specimen 

 is in my collection. 



June 9-13, 1905. On June 9 Mr. Glover M. Allen found a male Mourning War- 

 bler among some shrubbery close to the house of Professor Francis G. Peabody, on 

 Kirkland Street, Cambridge. It was noted again in the same place on the following 

 day by Mr. Allen. On the 13th of the month it was seen, for the last time, by Mr. 

 Allen, Mr. C. F. Batchelder and Mr. Walter Deane in Mr. Batchelder's grounds, which 

 adjoin those of Mr. Peabody. On all three occasions the bird was in full song. 



There is an early record by Nuttall (Land Birds, 1832, 404-405) of a bird 

 which he saw in the Harvard Botanic Garden on May 20, 1831, and which he 

 believed to have been a male Mourning Warbler. His description of its color 

 and markings indicates, however, that it must have belonged to some other 

 species. 



From the above notes it will appear that the Mourning Warbler is one of 

 our latest spring migrants and that it seldom visits us in autumn. Most of the 

 birds which I have mentioned were found either in swampy thickets or among 

 dense shrubbery in gardens. When on its breeding grounds in northern New 

 England the species frequents rather dry and comparatively open places, nest- 

 ing, as a rule, in tangles of wild raspberry bushes on wood edges, by roadsides, 

 and about deserted lumber camps. 



1 H. A. Purdie, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, VII, 1882, 252. 



