Ma | Wricut, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts. 2d 
and unworn condition; that the Blue-wing is not only one of the 
first of our summer residents to leave, it being rarely observed after 
September 5, but that it winters south of the United States; that 
on one occasion the mercury had registered 8°; and that probably 
the well-known habit of the species of searching for food in bunches 
of dead leaves and similar situations had enabled it to live where 
a flycatching warbler would long before have died”’ (vol. II, p. 26). 
As the winter range of these three species according to Chapman 
(Warblers of North America) is southern Texas to southern Mexico 
for V. rubricapilla, Florida southward to the West Indies for D. 
palmarum, and northern Mexico to Colombia for V. pinus, the 
occurrences would seem to have been purely accidental, while the 
fact that the usual winter range of the Orange-crowned Warbler 
reaches as far north as Charleston, South Carolina, where tempera- 
tures as low as 8° occur without being fatal to it, makes it appear 
quite possible and not improbable that the Orange-crown may 
have the hardiness to be a winter resident as far north as Boston, 
since records of winter visitants have now been obtained in five of 
the last eleven years, four of these years being 1909, 1910, 1912, 
and 1915, three individuals in 1915. 
The Orange-crowned Warbler is much rarer in the spring migra- 
tion in New England. As the general route of the species north- 
ward is through the Mississippi valley, the individuals which 
follow more closely the coast line, passing east of the Alleghanies, 
are few in number. The records of birds thus reaching New Eng- 
land, so far as they have been obtained, number but five, one each 
in the years 1863, 1876, 1888, 1891, 1892, on May 15, 16, 8, 9, 17 
respectively. And I find but two Eastern New York and New 
Jersey occurrences for May, namely, a Highland Falls, N. Y., 
record in. 1875 (Bull. N. O. C., 1878, p. 46), and a Hoboken, N. J., 
record for 1865 (Auk, Vol. X, Jan., 1893, p. 90). Montreal has 
one record, that of a bird shot on May 21, 1890, by Mr. Ernest D. 
Wintle (Auk, Vol. VIII, July, 1890, p. 290). Therefore, the species 
is a very rare transient visitant in the spring in the whole north- 
eastern section of the United States, so far as published records 
show. It is, however, a spring migrant in western New York, 
where, Mr. Eaton testifies, “it is a regular migrant, though in 
small numbers, in the spring, arriving from the 12th to the 17th 
