eget agi Waricat, Orange-crowned Warbler in Massachusetts. 27 
Of his specimens Mr. Wayne says “The orange patch is present 
in both sexes, but is more intense and pronounced in the males. | 
have some superb old males with the entire crown deep orange; 
the forehead is the only part which lacks this color.”” Mr. Brewster 
also states that he has never seen the concealed crown patch shown 
by ‘a living bird, “although conspicuous enough,” he writes, “in 
cabinet specimens of males taken in spring, when the plumage 
of the crown is but slightly disarranged. All such specimens have 
it in profusion; nor is it always wanting in spring females, although 
none of mine have more than a comparatively slight suffusion of it, 
and most lack it altogether. With males taken in autumn (Sep- 
tember to November) and winter (December to February) it is 
almost or quite as profuse and richly colored as in spring ones, in 
what I take to be fully adult males, but much more dull and re- 
stricted in amount with those presumably immature, and with 
some of these nearly or quite absent altogether.” Mr. Brewster 
regards this concealed color of the crown as “not orange at all”’ 
and says that to his eye “it has a more or less decided tinge of dull 
or pale chestnut.”” Mr. Brewster has very kindly undertaken for 
me a careful examination of a large series of skins which he pos- 
sesses, which includes many specimens collected by Mr. Wayne 
near Charleston, S. C., in December, January, and February. 
The records of the Orange-crowned Warbler for the fall and 
winter of 1915-1916, surpassing former seasons in their number, 
together with those of other recent years, strengthen the view that 
the species may be becoming a more regular and less rare fall 
migrant in this region and that it is manifesting a disposition to be 
a winter visitant, if not, indeed, a winter resident. 
