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where it may have had a mate and nest. Another, which, no doubt, was either 

 a migrant or a chance straggler from some distant woodland, paid our garden 

 a brief visit on August 2, 1893. 



A female Pine Warbler ^ was shot by Mr. Walter Faxon in Belmont on 

 December 15, 1890. The species has been found at Framingham, Massachusetts, 

 on December 5 (1891) and January i (1892); at Duxbury, Massachusetts, on 

 December 27 (1882). 



213. Dendroica palmarum (Gmel.). 

 Palm Warbler. Redpoll Warbler. 



Uncommon transient visitor in autumn. 



seasonal occurrence. 



September 7, 1881, one female^ taken, Belmont, H. M. Spelman.' 



September 15 — October 10. 

 October 28, 1895, one im. seen, Cambridge, W. Brewster. 

 December 6, 1902, one seen, Cambridge, R. Hoffmann. 



This, the typical, form of the Palm Warbler was first detected in our region 

 by Mr. H. M. Spelman who shot a female'' on September 13, 1880, in the neigh- 

 borhood of Gray's Woods, Cambridge, and another on September 7, 1881, in 

 Belmont where two more specimens were obtained by Mr. Charles R. Lamb on 

 September 29, 1883.^ Since 1890 Mr. Walter Faxon has taken a number of Palm 

 Warblers (most of which are in my collection) in Belmont and Arlington, at dates 

 ranging from September 23 to October 6. As a rule the southward migrations of 

 the Palm Warbler begin and end somewhat earlier than those of the Yellow Red- 

 poll Warbler, but straggling representatives of the western bird sometimes linger 

 late into the autumn. I saw one in our garden on October 28, 1895, and another 

 was noted in Norton's Woods by Mr. Ralph Hoffmann on December 6, 1902, 

 when the ground was deeply covered with snow and the thermometer only 10° 

 above zero. 



1 No. 29,600, collection of William Brewster. 



2 No. 250, collection of H. M. Spelman. 



^H. M. Spelman, Balletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, VII, 1882, 54. 



■" No. 249, collection of H. M. Spelman. 



*C. R. Lamb, Quarterly Journal of the Boston Zoological Society, II, i88j, 55. 



