LOCAL BIRD NOTES. I3I 



ber 2nd, but the immature birds disappeared after the ist. 

 On the 7th the adult males were again on the grounds, look- 

 ing as happy and unconcerned as if there were no such 

 thing as winter. Then for nearly a week we missed them 

 and concluded they had at last undertaken the long jour- 

 ney to the tropics. (It is worthy of note that no females 

 were seen at any time.) 



What was our astonishment on the T4th to see an adult 

 male, apparently the more mature of the two previous 

 ly seen, serenely feeding in the apple trees! Again on 

 the morning of the 15th there he was in the purple beech ! 

 This was too much. We felt certain we should be set down 

 as impostors if we dared publish our observations wdthout 

 corroborative evidence. On the instant we telephoned the 

 Pinfeather Ornithologist — who, by the way, has long since 

 outgrown her modest " nom de plume " — to come' to the 

 rescue. In less than two minutes she had her glass on the 

 bird, and we knew that, ornithologically, our salvation was 

 assured. The climax was capped on the morning of Sun- 

 da}-, the 16th, when the Full-fledged Ornithologist, who 

 has written so charmingly of gulls and terns, was favored 

 with a perfect observation and so enabled to add the weight 

 of his testimony. 



This was the last time we saw these belated warblers who 

 for twenty-three days, October 25th to November i6th, had 

 so delighted and puzzled us. Why were thej- here ? I^et 

 someone answer that question who knows ! 



2. A WINTER WREN. 



The winter wren is so rarely seen in this vicinity, or, at 

 any rate, so rarely recognized and reported, that the re- 

 cord of an observation may be of interest. On the after- 

 noon of the 29th of October, while walking up the easterly 

 extension of Webster street, I saw what might have been 



