fees 
18 Wriacut, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts. vant 
ice and snow, and conditions were still favorable for gleaning food 
even upon the surface. 
There had been two minima temperatures of 8° and one of 4° 
in the month of January preceding the 26th, when the Orange- 
crown was last seen. In this connection the testimony of Mr. 
Arthur T. Wayne of South Carolina is interesting. Mr. Wayne in 
‘a general note’ of ‘The Auk,’ (Vol. XXII, October, 1905, p. 417), 
states “The Orange-crowned Warbler is capable of enduring 
intense cold. I have seen numbers of these highly interesting 
birds near Charleston when the thermometer ranged as low as 8° 
above zero.” Mr. Wayne further states “The Orange-crowned 
Warbler winters abundantly [the italics are his] on the coast of 
South Carolina, and it arrives from the northwest the last week in 
October and remains until the first week in April, or perhaps 
even later.”” In a letter recently received from Mr. Wayne he 
confirms these statements, saying that it winters regularly in the 
region of Charleston, but that more are seen in some winters than 
in others, that the species arrives there about October 30, the 
earliest record, and remains until the second week in April. 
Other records than those already given which have been furnished 
me are: 
One seen by Miss Blanche Kendall feeding on the suet in her 
yard in Brookline on January 4, 1901. Miss Kendall writes me, 
“The bird was here frequently through January and February,” 
and states that there was difficulty at the time about its identifica- 
tion, but later it was determined with certainty to be an Orange- 
crown. Mr. Frederic H. Kennard saw the bird on February 11 
and gives confirmation as to its identity. 
One seen by Dr. C. W. Townsend and Dr. Glover M. Allen at the 
border of the Virginia Wood in the Middlesex Fells, Melrose, on 
November 29, 1906. This bird had been seen by Mrs. L. E. Bridge 
on the 26th. 
One seen by Mrs. Bridge in West Medford on October 3, 1909. 
One seen by Mr. Barron Brainerd and his father, Dr. Brainerd, 
in Olmsted Park, Brookline, on November 25, 1909, when the 
“sky was overcast and drizzling,” following “a day with a north- 
east gale accompanied by sleet.” The bird’s call was noted as 
“stweep.” 
