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( Vermivora peregrina) seems to have eluded the few observers who have 

 looked for it in southwestern Maine. There is a bare mention, in a migra- 

 tion list published by the ' Journal of the Maine Ornithological Society,' 1 

 of its occurrence at Westbrook on May 30, 1902; and Mr. Arthur H. 

 Norton is given as the authority for this. But Mr. Norton tells me that 

 the record was made without his knowledge, through a typographical or 

 editorial error, and that he has never seen the bird in the vicinity of Port- 

 land. 



A Tennessee Warbler, apparently a male, came into my garden, with 

 many other little migrants, on August 30, 1914, and, after giving for a long 

 time only inconclusive evidence of his identity, flew to the lower branches 

 of an old apple tree, amongst which I was standing, and displayed his 

 specific characteristics at very close quarters. Constantly moving about, 

 but unhurried and seemingly quite free from fear, he was several times 

 within three feet of me on a level with my eyes, offering me in a good light 

 a perfect opportunity for studying him, whilst he pecked at leaves and 

 twigs, made futile little sallies a-wing in the attempt to snap up insects 

 and voiced his feelings in subdued call-notes. His plumage was beauti- 

 fully smooth, and he was very plainly recognizable. 



Late in the afternoon of September 6, 1914, a Tennessee Warbler ap- 

 peared in the same old apple tree. The flutterings of a moth which he had 

 caught absorbed his attention, and he permitted me to approach him as 

 near as I chose. I scrutinized him carefully, until he was chased away by 

 a Myrtle Warbler, — long enough to note that he was indistinguishable in 

 appearance from my visitor of August 30; and he may, of course, have 

 been the same bird. 



The writer obtained on Cape Elizabeth, August 21, 1876, the only speci- 

 mens of the Cape May Warbler ( Dendroica tigrina) which have thus far 

 been taken in the vicinity of Portland, and there has since been no an- 

 nouncement to his knowledge, of other examples seen. Perhaps it is safe 

 to assume that the species is a regular migrant; but for the present more 

 data seem desirable in support of this hypothesis. 



The Cape May Warbler passed at least four times through some of the 

 gardens at the West End of Portland during September, 1914, and on 

 these occasions the birds were so tame and leisurely that close inspection 

 of them was easy. On the 3rd I detected one in a troop of Warblers. On 

 the 10th one remained about my house the greater part of the day, alone, 

 several times visiting a piazza roof, in the gutter of which rain water was 

 standing, and at times foraging on the open lawn. Two came together on 

 the 18th and with other Warblers, including the Parula, the Myrtle and 

 the Black-throated Green, bathed long and fully in the spray of a 'Sprinkler 

 placed so as to play upon an apple tree about four feet high. They per- 

 mitted themselves to be showered in the tree and also descended to a little 

 pool under it where they splashed about vigorously. On the 21st I found 



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