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Late Southward Migration of the Cape May Warbler on Long 
Island.— Doctor Richmond’s record of a Cape May Warbler ( Dendroica 
tigrina) at Washington, D. C., December 16, 1916 (Auk, XXXIV: 343) 
seems to make appropriate some account of this bird’s southward migra- 
tion the same year on Long Island where, also, the last one was seen in 
December. My latest previous record is October 12 (1912). 
On my grounds at Hewlett, on the south side of the island, is an open 
grove of red cedars which evidently offer some particular attraction to 
these warblers on their southward journey, and where, of late years, they 
have usually been more or less common at the end of August and in Sep- 
tember, not infrequently remaining continuously present day after day. 
In the spring they are less often seen in these trees, showing then a prefer- 
ence for oak woodland. Some of these cedars are close to the house and it 
has occurred in several years that the “‘ first arrival,’’ to use a conventional 
term, has been seen from the windows in the early morning. In 1916 the 
first one was thus seen on August 26 (earliest record August 20, 1914). 
No other was observed until September 3, and during that month they 
were noted only a few times, making it appear that it was an “ off year ”’ 
for them in this region. But in October, from the 2d to the 8th, there 
was an unusual late flight, as many as six and seven being present on my 
grounds on several days. After this a single one was seen on the 13th 
and 15th. It may be of interest in passing to report of this particular bird 
that it was to be found the greater part of each day feeding in a willow 
where the sap was running from a row of holes made by a sapsucker. 
Often it was seen clinging to the trunk of this willow and pecking at the 
sap holes, but whether taking the sap or feeding on entrapped insects I 
could not determine. 
My young daughters, who had come to know this warbler as a familiar 
bird, reported one on October 27, and again one November 15, on each 
occasion describing their bird so unmistakably that there was no possi- 
bility of error. On December 4, they observed another one, evidently a 
male in rather high plumage for the season. It was not at all shy, allowing 
them to follow it about and watch it feeding in the garden border on the 
berries of a tree of Hleagnus umbellata whose abundant fruit remained 
in an unripened condition. The next morning I myself saw the bird, 
obtaining several perfect views at a distance of not more than a few yards, 
my daughters, who were with me, could detect no differences in its plumage 
from the one they had watched the previous day, and there was no reason 
to suppose it was not the same bird. Both days had been fair and un- 
usually mild for the season, the temperature standing at 53° in the early 
evenings. 
Many birds on their southward journey lingered unduly that mild season, 
and at Hewlett a considerable number of species remained later, some of 
them much later, than I had ever recorded them before. Most noteworthy 
of all, perhaps, was the Cape May Warbler. For this reason its occurrence 
on Long Island and at Washington in December would seem to be less in 
