322 MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



[Helminthophila pinus (Linn.). Blue-winged Warbler. Blue-winged Yellow War- 

 bler. Mr. Guy Emerson has reported^ seeing a Blue-winged Warbler at Waverley on May 

 29, 1902. The bird was among some shrubs and small trees growing along the banks of a 

 brook which flowed through a meadow. It "was not shj," and Mr. Emerson "had excellent 

 opportunity, .sometimes from within three or four feet, to observe all " its "distinctive mark- 

 ings." He also heard "the two-note song " which was "repeated continuously during the hour 

 or more" he "spent in tlie vicinity." He thinks "there were two birds there," but is "positive 

 of only one, an adult male." 



Unfortunately this record cannot be accepted with entire confidence. At the time of making 

 it Mr. Emerson was a very young and inexperienced observer who, moreover, had had no pre- 

 vious acquaintance with the Blue-winged Warbler in life. It is not improbable, however, that 

 the bird seen by him at Waverley was a Blue-winged Yellow Warbler, for the species has been 

 reported on more or less good authority from Dedham,^ West Roxbury ' and Dorchester,* and 

 there is no reason why it should not occasionally visit the Cambridge Region.] 



196. Helminthophila chrysoptera (Linn.). 

 Golden-winged Warbler. Golden-wing. 



Rather common summer resident. 



SEASONAL OCCURRENCE. 



May 7, 1896, two males seen, Lexington, W. Faxon. 



May 12 — August 25. 

 August 28, 1886, one ad. female' taken (Concord), W. Brewster. 



NESTING DATE. 



June I, 1897, nest " and five eggs, Arlington, W. Faxon. 



In June, 1874, I found several pairs of Golden-winged Warblers settled for 

 the season and no doubt breeding, about half a mile to the westward of the 

 Waverley Oaks, in Waltham, and in July of that same season I met with an 

 adult female, accompanied by three young, not far from Arlington Heights. 

 If the species inhabited any part of the Cambridge Region before the year just 



^G. Emerson, Auk, XIX, 1902, 291. 



2 E. A. Samuels, Ornithology and Oijlogy of New England, 1867, 213. 



'R. Deane, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, III, 1878, 188. 



*F. H. Brackett, Auk, XV, 1898, 59. 



'No. 11,721, collection of William Brewster. 



' No. 3656, collection of William Brewster. 



