Brewster Wakhi.er 109 



THE NEW YEAR CENSUS. 

 Not long after this number reaches its readers a new year 

 will be at hand. If you are keeping a yearly record of the 

 birds, your old note-book will be laid aside and a fresh one 

 placed in readiness. It means something aesthetically, if not 

 practically, how the new note-book is begun, whether the first 

 page is well filled or not. To me it means more than I care 

 to admit. We have begun the.se New Year Censuses well, 

 and I hope and trust that 1905 will not fall behind 1904 in the 

 records that shall be made. 1905 begins on Sunday, and it is 

 therefore proposed that for those who do not study birds on 

 that day, to make the record on the 2nd. How much each 

 one can do will depend upon the region, the time, and the 

 weather. The editor will be unable to participate in this 

 contest, so the prize offered last year cannot be repeated. To 

 every one who secures a bona fide list of twenty five or more 

 species, not including English Sparrow, a year's subscription 

 to The Wilson Bulletin will be given. Make as large a 

 list as possible for Mr. Frank M. Chapman's Christmas Cen- 

 sus, and then beat it for the New Year Census ! Send the 

 lists to Eynds Jones, 5623 Drexel Avenue, Chicago, 111. 



BREWSTKR WARBLER {Ilflmnithophila leucohrniii-liifdix) TN 

 CHESTER COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA. 



Near the close of an •'all-diiy with the l)irds"" I was fort un;itr 

 enough to iiu-et with a singlr individual of this typt'. phase, or whut 



-ever it may he. near Devon, on May 13th. 1904. It was found at the 

 border of a large grove, where I watched it sometimes as near as twenty 

 feet, from an old cart-road. It was altogether like the Blue-winged 

 Warbler above,— with the white wing bars and black bar through the 

 eye- but the under parts were white instead of the rit-h yellow of that 

 bird. I could detect no trace of yellow on its breast. In action, drop- 

 ping from branch to branch of the smaller trees so near, it was 

 very like the Blue-wing— witli which I am familiar. Although 

 I cannot but regret that I had no means of securing it at the 

 time, I have no hesitation in recording it as a Brewster's Warbler, 



rafter I had observed it through a good pair of field glasses for over fif- 

 teen minutes. Fka>k L. Brit.NS. Berwyn. Pa. 



BREWSTER WARBLER AGAIN IN OHIO. 



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BY W. F. HEN'NINCiEK. 



On September 17th of this year while out to study the annual fall 



