"^°1908^^] General Notes. 481 



The Blue-gray Gnatcatcher in Southeastern Pennsylvania. — In Mr. 



Stone's 'Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey,' page 148, the 

 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher {Polioptila carulea) is said to be a "Rare summer 

 resident in Southern New Jersey, and much less common in Southern 

 Pennsylvania. Only a rare straggler in the Delaware Valley." In a 

 footnote on the same page: "This species may have bred here formerly, 

 as there is a very young Isird in the collection of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences, obtained near Philadelphia many years ago by Wm. Wood." 



I believe the following list is a complete summary of specimens either 

 seen or captured in this vicinity (southeastern Pennsylvania) : 



One shot at Chestnut Hill, Pa., Sept. 3, 1880, by Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 (Stone's Birds of E. Penn. and N. J., p. 148.) 



One found dead at Frankford, Pa , Apr. 19, 1904, by Richard F. Miller. 

 (Auk, April, 1907, p. 222.) 



One seen at Swarthmore, Pa., April 25, 1905, by Dr. Spencer Trotter. 



One (probably the same bird) seen at Media, Pa., May 1, 1905, by Philip 

 H. Moore; May 2, by Lydia G. Allen, and May 7, by Alice Fussell. (Cas- 

 sinia, 1905, p. 67.) 



One seen at Wayne, Pa., May 18, 1907, by Leonard S. Pearson. (Auk, 

 Oct. 1907, p. 447.) 



One female shot at Wayne, Pa., April 18, 1908, by L. S. Pearson. (Speci- 

 men now in collection of Mr. Witmer Stone, Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.) 



One male shot at Wayne, Pa., May 2, 1908, by Alfred C. Redfield. 

 Same bird seen by L. S. Pearson on same date. 



This makes a total of seven records — one fall capture, three spring 

 captures, and three specimens seen in spring. — Leonard S. Pearson, 

 Wayne, Pa. 



The Hermit Thrush as a Summer Resident of Long Island, N. Y. — 



Late in the afternoon of July 13, 1908, while walking along the road be- 

 tween Holbrook and Patchogue, L. I., about two miles from the latter 

 place, I heard a Hermit Thrush (Hylocichla guttata pallasii) singing at a 

 distance of about a hundred yards from the road. After stalking it for 

 more than half an hour I was able to secure a good view of the bird with an 

 opera-glass and complete the identification, although the song, with which 

 I was familiar, had been unmistakable from the first. Meantime the bird 

 had been singing continually, except when I would disturb it by approach- 

 ing too closely. I am quite certain that I heard one other Hermit Thrush 

 singing in the vicinity at the same time. 



The locality is densely grown with young white oaks (Quercus alba) 



caching a height of perhaps twenty or twenty-five feet, together with a 



few scattered pitch pines (Pinus rigida). The underbrush is composed 



largely of short blueberry bushes. The place is only forty feet above sea 



level, and three miles distant from Great South Bay. 



This seems to be the first adult Hermit Thrush observed on Long Island 

 during the breeding season, though there are two previous records for 



