ee Wricat, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts. 21 
failed to find the species five miles from Charleston away from the 
coast, but have taken it nine miles from Charleston on the coast. 
I have taken specimens in November, December, January, Febru- 
ary, and March. The bird appears to migrate early in the Spring. 
....I have taken males in January with the crown bright orange. 
....1 secured in all about fifteen specimens during the winter of 
1884.”” Mr. Wayne found his birds “always keeping in the thickest 
bushes, searching for worms and larvee amongst the dead leaves.”’ 
Mr. Wayne again refers to the species as maritime in ‘The Auk,’ 
Vol. XXII, Oct., 1905, p. 417, wh:re be states “The centre of 
abundance of these warblers [V. celata] is on the coast islands, as 
the greater part of these islands are veritable jungles, which the 
Orange-crowned Warbler delights to inhabit.” 
In view of Mr. Wayne’s testimony for South Carolina and of the 
Boston Region records it is quite surprising, therefore, to find in 
“The Auk’ for January, 1916, Vol. XX XIII, p. 78, a ‘general note’ 
by Mr. J. T. Nichols and Mr. Ludlow Griscom of New York, 
which states “On January 3, 1915, we discovered an ‘Orange- 
crowned Warbler in some live oaks on Monkey Island, Carritucket 
Sound [North Carolina]. The bird was collected and proved to be 
afemale. It is now in the collection of the American Museum of 
Natural History, catalogue no. 123791. Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson 
informs us that this is the third record for the State.”” And Mr. 
C. J. Maynard in his ‘Warblers of New England,’ published in 
1905, also states “The farthest north that I have found it [V. 
celata] in autumn was at New River, North Carolina, where a 
female, now in my collection, was obtained on November 11, 1900.”’ 
Mr. Maynard in a letter just received confirms this statement, 
that this North Carolina specimen in his collection continues to be 
the most northern individual that he has seen along the Atlantic 
Coast. 
To these very few records for North Carolina may be added 
two obtained just farther north in Virginia in the autumn: one, 
that of a fine adult bird taken by Dr. A. K. Fisher on October 13, 
1889, while collecting in company with Mr. H. W. Henshaw, at 
Munson Hill, a locality a few miles from Washington, D. C. 
Dr. Fisher states “when first seen, it was in a thicket of small 
alders, blackberries, and thoroughworts, gleaning insects from 
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