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MEMOIRS OF THE NUTTALL ORNITHOLOGICAL CLUB. 



May 17, 1867. Early this morning 1 shot a male in our garden. It was in an 

 apple tree and in full song. 



May 23, 1868. Mr. Ruthven Deane saw a male in Waltham in dense pine woods 

 interspersed with a few deciduous trees. 



May 16 and 17, 1869. On the morning of the i6th a male appeared in a blos- 

 soming cherry tree that stood directly in front of a house in East Watertown (not far 

 from Mount Auburn), where I was living at the time. When driven away from 

 this tree he invariably returned to it a minute or two later, and in it he spent the 

 whole of this as well as the greater part of the next day although there were dozens of 

 other cherry trees in full bloom within a short distance. I have since learned that at 

 its seasons of migration the Cape May Warbler frequently confines its ramblings dur- 

 ing an entire day to the branches of a single tree — a habit unique, as far as 1 am 

 aware, among diurnal North American birds. 



May 21, 1870. I have a record of a male Cape May Warbler that was seen on 

 this date somewhere in Cambridge or its immediate neighborhood, but just where or 

 by whom, I cannot now remember. 



May 25, 187 I. Mr. Ruthven Deane shot a female in a Norway spruce near the 

 head of Sparks Street, Cambridge. 



May, 1875. *^'^ ^^^^ 19'''' of t'^'* month Mr. Frank Whiting of Cambridgeport 

 showed me two male Cape May Warblers, one of which he had taken on the 14th in 

 Waltham, the other on the 17th in Waverley. He told me that on the latter date he 

 had met with a number of the birds among some dense red cedars on a hillside not 

 far from where the main driveway to the McLean Asylum now enters the grounds of 

 that institution. I visited the place the next morning (that of May 20) and almost 

 immediately heard a Cape May Warbler singing among the cedars, but after shoot- 

 ing it I searched the whole of the surrounding woods without discovering any others. 

 Two days later, however, I noted another male in full song near the upper mill-pond 

 in Waverley. The instance just mentioned is the only definite one which has come 

 to my knowledge of the finding of more than one or two Cape May Warblers at any 

 one locality in eastern Massachusetts during a single season, but Mr. C. J. Maynard 

 has reported (Naturalist's Guide, 1870, 104-105) that "the late Dr. Henry Bryant 

 once showed me quite a number of skins, which he said were taken in eastern Massa- 

 chusetts, in spring, upon apple-trees when in bloom." 



August 25, 18S4. I shot a young male Cape May Warbler on this date in some 

 dense cedar woods on the crest of a ridge immediately behind Mount Auburn. This 

 instance is the only one known to me of the occurrence of the species in autumn in the 

 Cambridge Region, but I have seen a specimen (a female) which was taken by Mr. 

 A. M. Tufts at Lynn on August i8, 1880. 



May 14, 1887. A male was shot by Mr. Richard Norton of Cambridge in an oak 

 near the edge of some pine woods in Arlington. 



May 12, i8go. I have a mounted specimen, a male, that was killed on this date 

 in Arlington by Mr. J. R. Mann. 



May 14, 1 89 1. A male in full song was noted by Mr. Walter Faxon in East Lex- 

 ington. 



May 10, 1S97. A male was met with by Mr. Walter Faxon at Lower Mystic 

 Pond, Arlington. 



May 15, 1901. A male was seen by Messrs. A. Vincent Kidder and Richard S. 

 Eustis in the John C. Gray place on Brattle Street, Cambridge. 



At first glance this array of evidence may seeni to indicate that the Cape 

 May Warbler is not, after all, so very infrequent a visitor to the Cambridge Re- 



