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February, thus being assisted in procuring its needful supply of 
food. The species has not yet proven a capacity to cope with the 
severest conditions of weather which visit this region. The 
January 19 and 23 bird at Abington in 1905 and the January 10 
and 26 bird at Fresh Pond, Cambridge, in 1916 seemed to be 
showing such a capacity, as they had already endured milder 
winter conditions, but they passed from our ken when the 
weather conditions became severer, as was the case after the last 
obtained record of each of these birds. I believe the concensus of 
opinion is that a migrating bird having remained in the north 
into the month of January is not likely to have the instinct of 
migration carry it to its more usual winter range, but will seek a 
living where it is, or, may be, wander simply in its search for food. 
So this 1916 bird may still be somewhere in the vicinity, if mishap 
have not overtaken it, which with regret we must say is quite too 
likely. The vicinity of Boston, however, appears to mark the 
northern limit of the appearance of the species in the east in the 
fall and winter, as the absence of Maine, New Hampshire, and 
Vermont records indicates. 
Two instances of quite accidental occurrence of other warblers 
in this region in the winter may be cited as of interest in this 
connection. Dr. Walter Faxon gives me that of a Nashville 
Warbler (Vermivora rubricapilla) found by him dead in 
Swampscott, January 31, 1890. This bird was found “with its 
neck broken and wedged between two twigs of a barberry bush — 
clearly the work of a Shrike. Mr. Brewster, who now has the 
bird’s skin, was sure that it could not have been dead over two 
weeks. In the stomach were many land snail shells” (Auk, Vol. 
VII, 1890, p. 409). And there was an occurrence of a Palm Warbler 
(Dendroica palmarum palmarum) remaining in the Arnold Arbore- 
tum at Jamaica Plain from November 26, 1911, to January 3, 1912, 
seen by myself and other observers (Auk, Vol. XXIX, April, 1912, 
p. 247). And ‘Bird-Lore’ gives the record of a Blue-winged 
Warbler (Vermivora pinus) found dead in the Bronx Park, New 
York, January 6, 1900, by Mrs. Elizabeth G. Britton, which 
“evidently starved to death.” Mr. Chapman in a note on this 
occurrence states that the bird was presented to the American 
Museum; that it is apparently a female and its plumage is in fresh 
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