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20 Wricut, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts. 
land have evidently proceeded on a more northerly route, in the 
course of which some at least seem to occupy more time in their 
migratory passage to the coast line. 
And it would appear that the coast line is their ultimate goal, 
since I can learn of no late fall or winter records of the species in 
the interior of New England nor for the State of New York. Mr. 
Eaton in his ‘Birds of New York’ states “In the fall, migration 
takes place between the 25th of September and the 12th of October.” 
And Mr. James H. Fleming in an article on the Birds of Toronto, 
Canada, testifies that it is a “regular migrant, rare, May 7 to 15 
and probably later (May 27, 1888, Hamilton, Ontario); in the fall, 
October 6 to 10.” And he further states “I have the records of 
only eight in eight years,” (Auk, Vol. XXIV, Jan., 1907, p. 71). 
It would appear, therefore, from such testimony as we have 
that the species leaves the interior before the middle of October 
and that the individuals which reach the seacoast at Boston and 
vicinity in November and later show a disposition to linger and 
even to winter here. This is the case of the Myrtle Warbler 
(Dendroica coronata) in its southward migration, the records of 
which show that as a wintering bird the species confines itself 
quite closely to the coast line after the period of its general migra- 
tion. So hereabouts we do not obtain winter records of the Myrtle 
Warbler in territory lymg much back from the immediate coast 
line, while the species is a regular winter resident in considerable 
numbers in towns along the shores of Massachusetts, showing 
hardiness in the very low temperatures which occasionally occur 
here, when the mercury falls to zero or below zero. 
In this connection Mr. Wayne of South Carolina may again be 
quoted. In ‘The Auk’ for January, 1886, p. 138, Mr. Wayne 
states that he secured his first specimen of Orange-crowned Warbler 
on November 29, 1884, that the bird was shot on Sullivan’s Island, 
which is “about six miles long and seven miles from Charleston, 
directly on the Atlantic Ocean.’’....“This warbler,” he writes, 
“is a late autumnal migrant,....wintering in small numbers, 
especially on Sullivan’s Island, as nearly all my specimens were 
taken on that island. They were all shot from myrtle bushes and 
invariably fell, when shot, into the water. I, therefore, consider 
this species strictly maritime when in South Carolina.....I have 
