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Morris County, at an altitude of 933 feet above sea-level. The low, moist 
woods that the Warblers had chosen for their home consists chiefly of Red 
Maple, with an undergrowth of Sweet Pepperbush, Swamp Azalea, Arrow- 
wood, Black Alder, High Blueberry, Skunk Cabbage, Cinnamon and 
Royal Ferns, etc. The birds were always met near a road where the 
swamp was bordered by higher ground, about one-eighth of a mile from the 
Lake. 
This is, so far as I know, the first recorded instance of the breeding of the 
Canada Warbler in New Jersey — W. DEW. MILLER, American Museum 
of Natural History, New York City. 
Mockingbird at West Haven, Conn.—A Mockingbird (Mimus 
polyglottos polyglottos) appeared near the center of West Haven, Conn., 
on November 8, 1916, and has been observed almost every day up to 
January 22, 1917. It usually appears with a flock of Starlings. It pays 
no attention to food put out for the birds but prefers to eat the berries of 
the Bitter Sweet and Honeysuckle vines which grow along the fence. It 
does not appear to be wild as on two occasions I have walked under the 
apple tree in which it was perched.— N. E. Witmot, West Haven, Conn. 
Hudsonian Chickadees at Hatley, Stanstead County, Quebec.— 
On October 10, 1916, I came across two examples of the Hudsonian Chick- 
adee (Penthestes hudsonicus subsp.?) in the same wood as the pair recorded 
in ‘ The Auk,’ Vol. 33, 1916, p. 184; and they remained there until Novem- 
ber 12. Between these dates I saw them on ten occasions, and generally 
they were in the company with a few P. atricapillus but it was quite an 
easy matter to locate them from the latter by their notes alone, without 
seeing them, and this I often did following up the sound until a view of the 
birds was obtained and identification confirmed.— H. Moustery, Hatley, 
Que. 
Penthestes hudsonicus at Portland, Maine.— Penthestes hudsonicus, 
which did not come under the writer’s observation at Portland during his 
collecting days, has twice made known to him its presence there since. 
On April 27, 1913, I watched a bird for three quarters of an hour as it moved 
about in trees and bushes at the west end of Portland,— alone most of the 
time but occasionally joined by a small party of Black-capped Chickadees 
(P. atricapillus atricapillus) which chanced to be in the neighborhood. 
Another bird passed much of the afternoon of October 27, 1913, near my 
house on Vaughan Street, Portland, and was identified only by its frequent 
call-notes. Since no specimens of P. hudsonicus are in existence from 
Portland or its vicinity, so far as I am aware, it seems best at present 
not to express an opinion as to the subspecies which was represented by 
these birds.— NaTHAN CuLirrorD Brown, Portland, Maine. 
“ One of the Rarest Birds.” — Under this caption Dr. Hartert (Novit. 
Zool., XXIII, Dec., 1916, 335-336, pl. 1) has recently given a brief history, 
