BULLETIN No. :V2. 13 



I saw a male of this species on a small j^oiul almost in the 

 business part of the city and a few days later one lit in my 

 neighbor's yard seemingly almost exhausted but possessing 

 enough vitality to fly away when alarmed. Most authorities 

 agree that the Old Squaw is unedible when killed on the great 

 lakes, but here they vary their diet with worms and are far 

 better eating than Scaup or Golden-eye. I have found the 

 common angleworm and a large green worm resembling a cut- 

 worm in their throats. The specimens seen here are mosth' 

 males. I have one specimen taken the 14th day of April, 

 180.S, in full breeding plumage. The white on the anterior 

 portion changes to black and the scapulars from white to black 

 with brown edgings to the feathers. They are very unsus- 

 picious when approached. I have seen them here as late as 

 Ma}' in winter plumage, and this spring succeeded in getting 

 a picture of one flying. Wh}^ some should retain winter 

 plumage two weeks later than the time others are in full breed- 

 ing plumage puzzles me and I would welcome an)^ explanation. 



Wm. B. Haynes, Akron, Ohio. 



Migration Notes from Durham, N. H. — The Warblers 

 are now here in great numbers. The mass of them came the 

 11th in.st. On that day Blackburnians, Magnolias, Redstarts, 

 Ovenbirds and Parulas were abundant, yet none of them ap- 

 peared before the 10th, so far as I know. Palm Warblers are 

 still common as are also Myrtles. A single Wilson's — a bird 

 I have seen but little of — appeared on the 18th, and on the 

 morning of the same day I heard for the first time the song 

 of the White-crowned Sparrow. There were three males 

 about, and between them they kept up a song nearly all the 

 morning. The song was oftenest delivered from a tree, 

 though it came freely from a bird on a w^ood pile. It re- 

 minded me of the White-throated Sparrow in its beginning, 

 and of the Vesper Sparrow in its ending. The first two notes 

 were clear, whistled tones, D sharp and G sharp, delivered 

 precisely like the Chickadee's '' pe-xve'' ; these were followed 

 by three quick notes somewhere between the first two, but 

 just where I could not determine, and these by a cadence very 

 like that of the Vesper Sparrow. The order of the two open- 

 ing notes was sometimes reversed but generally D sharp came 



