ee | Wricut, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts. Zo 
pany with Nashvilles, Northern Parulas, and a few Redstarts. 
This date is remarkable because of the fact that the few Pennsyl- 
vania and New Jersey specimens have almost invariably been 
taken in late February or early March” (Auk, Vol. XXVIII, April, 
1911, p. 268). This flock must have been a part of the general 
migration of Orange-crowns which takes place at the time named, 
but passes mostly west of the Alleghanies. The records gathered 
by Dr. Stone would seem to be those of the few birds which have 
kept more closely to the coast line. 
Préceeding farther north in our survey to New York, where Mr. 
Eaton in his ‘Birds of New York’ states “In the fall, migration 
takes place between the 25th of September and the 12th of Octo- 
ber,” we find these October records: a female was taken, October 
9, 1876, and a second specimen seen on the 29th of the same month 
by E. P. Bicknell at Riverdale (Bull. N. O. C., vol. IV, 1879, p. 61); 
a young female was shot near Syracuse, October 2, 1886, by Morris 
M. Green (Auk, vol. IV, Oct. 1887, p. 350). And Mr. William 
Dutcher, giving ‘Notes on Some Rare Birds in the Collection of 
the Long Island Historical Society’ states concerning V. celata, 
“This specimen was shot on the Eastside lands by Mr. [John] 
Akhurst [taxidermist, Brooklyn], and is the only one he ever 
procured. It is in immature plumage and was shown to, and 
identified by, Mr. George N. Lawrence” (Auk, Vol. X, July, 1893, 
p. 277). We find also in the same volume an accourt of a young 
male bird shot at Flatbush, Kings Co., on October 12, 1892, by 
Mr. Arthur H. Howell, who states that the Orange-crowned 
Warbler has never before been recorded from Long Island. Mr. 
Howell also states that “Dr. Edgar A. Mearns refers to it as a 
‘rare migrant’ in the Hudson River valley” [p. 90]. 
So the very scattered records for the middle Atlantic Coast 
States are fewer than those of South Carolina to the South, where 
the species regularly winters, which would be expected, but are 
also fewer than those of the Boston Region on the north, which 
would not naturally be expected. 
We have no records as yet, however, of the Orange-crowned 
Warbler remaining throughout the winter in the Boston Region 
exeept that of Miss Kendall in Brookline, where the warbler 
frequently visited the suet in her yard through January and 
