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14 Wricat, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts. Tair 
Boston, beside Jamaica Pond; November 28, Fresh Pond reserva- 
tion, Cambridge; December 7 and 9, Olmsted Park, Boston; 
December 20, Olmsted Park; 1916, January 10, Fresh Pond 
reservation, Cambridge, seen by Mrs. B. W. Parker and Miss 
Alice M. Paul on the 26th. 
The 1905 bird was found in Island Grove Park in a grove of tall 
pines on a day when the ground was bare, feeding with a numerous 
band of Chickadees on the surface. Many views of it were ob- 
tained between its successive short flights from place to place, and a 
full description of its plumage was written down in my note book. 
I was puzzled at the time what name to put upon this warbler, for 
I had not as yet an acquaintance with the Orange-crown. Again, 
four days later, I visited the grove and readily found the warbler 
with the Chickadees, as before most of the time feeding on the 
ground, but sometimes in oak or pine saplings, and only when 
disturbed flying up into a taller tree, from which perch it would 
soon drop to the ground once more. Again a full description of 
the bird was written out in my note book. But it was not until 
I had had my subsequent experiences with the Orange-crowned 
Warbler that I could name this Abington bird with a sense of 
certainty as to its identification. Five days later I again visited 
the grove with Mr. Maurice C. Blake as a companion. Meanwhile 
a blizzard at a temperature of 11°, depositing a foot or more of 
snow, which lay upon the ground, had occurred. We could not find 
the warbler with the most careful and persistent searching. Its 
companions were present, the Chickadees, Red-breasted Nut- 
hatches, and Brown Creepers, thirty of the first named, three of 
the nuthatches, and eight or ten of the creepers. Three Myrtle 
Warblers also were seen. We hoped the Orange-crown got safely 
away, but the chances seemed to point to its death by the storm. 
A temperature as low as 5° had already occurred on January 6, 
but there had been only light snows of not much depth up to the 
25th. Abington is nineteen miles southward from the State 
House on Beacon Hill. 
The first 1908 bird, seen on Bear Hill in the Middlesex Fells 
reservation, was also much upon the ground and at other times in 
low growth of bushes, the common barberry and privet. Its com- 
panions were Chickadees, Fox Sparrows, Juncos, and a Yellow 
