12 Wricut, Orange-crowned Warbler in. Massachusetts. ati 
19, 23. Thus the species may be regarded not only as a late fall 
migrant, but even as a winter visitant. The records of other 
observers, as hereafter given, also indicate this. 
In connection with my own records, it has been interesting to 
look up published records of the Orange-crowned Warbler for the 
whole section of New England and the Middle Atlantic States. 
The result of the investigation follows. 
In Knight’s ‘Birds of Maine,’ published in 1908, I find it 
only in the hypothetical list, with the inference that there is no 
well authenticated instance of its occurrence in the State. Mr. 
Knight regards the set of eggs in the Smithsonian Institution which 
were collected near Brunswick, Maine, and referred to this species, 
but the data of which seem to be lacking, as more likely to be that 
of the Nashville Warbler, and states that Audubon’s record of 
the species breeding in Eastern Maine seems very likely a mis- 
take, and that subsequent writers have so regarded his statement. 
In Allen’s ‘Birds of New Hampshire,’ published in 1903, one 
spring record is given, that of a single bird taken May 16, 1876, 
by Dr. W. H. Fox at Hollis. There is no autumn record. 
Miss Alice W. Wilcox, director of the Fairbanks Museum of 
Natural Science at St. Johnsbury, Vermont, writes me, “We are 
quite outside the range of the Orange-crowned Warbler. No 
record that I know of has been made of it in Vermont. Our mu- 
seum specimen is from Texas.” 
In Howe and Allen’s ‘Birds of Massachusetts,’ published in 
1901, four records are given: one shot at Springfield, May 15, 
1863, by Dr. J. A. Allen, “who saw several other birds at the same 
time which he believed to be of this species’’; one taken at Lynn, 
January 1, 1875 (by Dr. Brewer); a female taken by Mr. William 
Brewster on October 2, 1876, at Concord; and an adult male 
captured in the autumn of 1885 (September 30) in Belmont by 
Mr. H. W. Henshaw. The last record is included by Mr. Brewster 
in his list of occurrences in the Cambridge Region. 
Rhode Island furnishes three published records. In Howe and 
Sturtevant’s ‘Birds of Rhode Island,’ published in 1899, with — 
supplement thereto in 1903, it is stated that one was shot by Mr. 
F. T. Jencks at Cranston, December 3, 1874, and a male bird 
was taken in East Providence on May 9, 1891, Of the former 
