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readily to conceive that a cause other than a normal migratory movement 

 is responsible for their presence. Of the seven instances, four vrere 

 recorded in April ; two as early as the 7th and 8th respectively. In Chap- 

 man's 'Birds of Eastern North America' (1895), p. 317, we find that the 

 Summer Tanager arrives in Florida early in April, and that at Washing- 

 ton, D. C, the first recorded date of arrival is April 28. In 'The Auk', 

 Vol. XVII, 1900, p. 297 (Allison) it is stated that the first recorded date 

 at which this bird has been seen by the writer in spring at New Orleans, 

 La., is April 2. The specimens of the Summer Tanager which have 

 reached Long Island early in April are birds which must have been driven 

 off the coast at points far to the south of the point of arrival ; not impos- 

 sibly while crossing the Gulf, between the West Indian Islands and the 

 Mainland. 



Vireo gilvus. Since recording the Warbling Vireo on Long Island, 

 Sept. 16, 1S95 (Auk, Vol. XIII, 1S96, p, 87), I have observed it every 

 spring and summer near the same locality, namely, just south of Prospect 

 Park near the Ocean Parkway. It probably nested here continuously, 

 and in 1900 I observed the nest, which was in plain sight from the drive- 

 way. Not only the nest but the bird upon it could be seen from the 

 ground, and I repeatedly heard the bird and saw the articulating move- 

 ments of the head and bill as it sang from the nest ivJiile brooding. The 

 nesting terminated successfully as far as I could determine, though later 

 in the season I failed to visit the locality for a considerable interval.. 

 During the summer of 1901, no birds of this species occupied the locality 

 referred to. 



Dendroica palmarum. The Palm Warbler was common in the vicinity 

 of Brooklyn in the autumn of 1895. They were noted Sept. 25 to Oct. 7, 

 and several specimens were secured on and between these dates. In 

 habits, these warblers impressed me as being birds more strictly of the 

 open than D. palmarum hyfochrysea. For example, I did not see them 

 in the woods at any time, while hypochrysea is found in such localities at 

 times. I found the Palm Warblers in open pasture fields, in hedges, in 

 isolated trees and on fence posts. Mr. William Butcher mentions in 

 ' The Auk', Vol. VI, p. 1S2, a specimen received from Fire Island Light. 

 Sept. 23, 1S87. I do not find any other records of this western species 

 on Long Island. 



Parus bicolor. The Tufted Titmouse is observed so infrequently on 

 Long Island that it is considered proper to place the following note of its 

 occurrence on record. I heard and saw an individual of this species at 

 Sheepshead Bay on March 14 and 15, 1898. A thick grove of cedars, 

 almost impenetrable in many places by reason of thick underbrush and 

 cat-briar, stands, or then stood, on the edge of the salt-meadows at that 

 place. Here, on the date first mentioned I saw Crows, Goldfinches, 

 White-throated and Song Sparrows, Robins, Purple Grackles, one Red- 

 winged Blackbird, Myrtle Warblers and one Golden-winged Woodpecker. 

 My attention was attracted by the clear, whistled note of what I at once 



