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ee | Wricut, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetis. 13 
occurrence Mr. H. A. Purdie, in a “ Notice of a Few Birds of Rare 
or Accidental Occurrence in New England” (Bull. N. O. C. IL, 
1877, p. 21), says that it is the fifth specimen reported for New 
England and the second taken in the winter season. The bird 
taken by Dr. Brewer in Lynn, Mass., January 1, 1875, is, doubtless, 
the other winter occurrence referred to. The third record for 
the State has been furnished by Mr. Henry S. Hathaway (Auk, 
Vol. XXX, Oct., 1913, p. 556), namely, “A male of this very rare 
migrant was shot by the late James W. Stainton in Cranston on 
May 17, 1892. It is now in the collection of Rhode Island birds 
in the Park Museum of Providence.” 
In ‘Birds of Connecticut’ by Messrs. Sage, Bishop and Bliss, 
published in 1913, five records are given: a male shot in company 
with Nashville Warblers at East Hartford, May 8, 1888, by W. E. 
Treat; a female secured by L. H. Porter at Stamford, November 
11, 1893; a male taken by L. B. Bishop on October 1, 1906, at New 
Haven; a young male taken by E. S. Woodruff at New Haven, 
October 8, 1906; and one seen by Dr. Bishop, October 6, 1911, at 
New Haven. 
These New England records, dating from 1863, exclusive of 
Mr. Brewster’s and my own, aggregate five in the spring in the 
years 1863, 1876, 1888, 1891, 1892 respectively; six in the fall 
in the years 1876, 1885, 1893, 1906 (two), 1911; and two in the 
winter, December 3, 1874, and January 1, 1875. Mr. Brewster 
adds ten records, all in the fall, one of his published nine records, 
that of the bird secured by Mr. Henshaw at Belmont in 1885 
already having been enumerated. My records number thirteen. 
of which six were in the fall, all in November, and seven in the 
winter. The fall records are definitely those of six different 
individuals. The seven winter records not improbably include 
but five different individuals. Neither Mr. Brewster nor I have 
any spring record. 
My thirteen records are of a single bird in each instance, namely : 
1905, January 19 and 23, Abington, Plymouth Co.; 1908, Novem- 
ber 5, Middlesex Fells, Stoneham; 1908, November 29, Cambridge, 
near Fresh Pond; 1910, December 3, Olmsted Park, Brookline, 
beside Leverett Pond; 1913,, November 22, Belmont; 1914, 
November 18, Belmont; 1915, November 20, Olmsted Park, 
