bad ein idl Wricat, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts. ibs 
therefore, that three individuals successively visited this locality 
in the season of 1915, as Mr. Brewster’s garden records of 1891, 
namely, one on November 10, one on November 25, and two on 
November 28, seem to indicate a succession of migrants; also his 
records of 1900, namely, two on November 9 and one on November 
23-24. If our supposition be correct, this bird of December 20 
was the fourth for the season. 
On January 10, 1916, again I found an Orange-crowned Warbler 
in close proximity to the Fresh Pond reservation. A damp snow 
was falling fast at the time the bird was seen, but later in the day 
the’precipitation became rain. Directly upon leaving the electric 
car at the parkway, the warbler appeared in a low hedge of Berberis 
thunbergit, bordering the front yards of the houses standing in a 
row on the drive. It was presently clearly identified. The bird 
moved along in advance of me down through almost the entire 
length of the hedge row, 400 or more feet, passing on by short 
flights, while I successively advanced from stops made for repeated 
observations. The sharp “chip” call was given. It proved to be 
the only bird abroad on this occasion, for I passed on to the park, 
and in a half-hour’s time no other bird gave evidence of its presence 
by flight or call. This warbler is scarcely likely to have been the 
warbler of November 28, since I had made visits to the reservation 
on December 1, 4, 10, 16, 23, 25, and January 5, and had seen no 
Orange-crowned Warbler. It may be regarded, therefore, as the 
fifth individual for the season. On January 26 this bird, pre- 
sumably the same, was seen by Mrs. B. W. Parker and Miss Alice 
M. Paul on the west side of the reservation upon a bank covered 
with young white pines and shrubs. The warbler was observed 
on the ground, as is not uncommonly the case. Golden-crowned 
Kinglets had already been viewed by the ladies, when the warbler 
appeared. Their testimony seems conclusive that the Orange- 
crown seen by me on the 10th was still present in the reservation 
on the 26th. I am informed also that two other observers had 
seen this warbler a day or two previous to that date. Only one 
period of snow-covered ground had occurred up to that time. The 
last days of December and early days of January had furnished 
about six inches of snowfall, which gradually had been disappearing 
until before the end of the month the ground was entirely bare of 
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