2o0 General Notes. [April 



brachyrhynchos Brehm, apparently thus far unchanged in the new island 

 home into which it has been introduced by man. — Otjtram Bangs, M us. 

 Comp. Zobl., Cambridge, Mass. 



The Orange-crowned Warbler in Cambridge, Mass., in December. 

 — On Sunday, December 13, 1914, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I 

 noticed a small bird flitting to and fro in a vine which grows on my neighbor's 

 piazza railing about 30 yards from the room in which I was sitting. The 

 actions of this bird at once attracted my attention. While they somewhat 

 resembled a kinglet's, they were not so quick and restless, and were those 

 of a warbler. 



The bird was not shy and during the 10 minutes I observed it I got 

 within 4 or 5 feet of it, and had ample opportunity to observe it carefully 

 through field glasses. Its under parts were dull greenish yellow becoming 

 a little darker on the breast, there was a whitish eye-ring and a very faint 

 showing of dull greyish wing-bars. The head was about the same color 

 as the back and tail, a greenish olive brown. It appeared to be feeding on 

 seeds and berries that grow on the vines. 



The bird was unquestionably an Orange-crowned Warbler, and its 

 occurrence in December seems worthy of notice. So far as I know, while 

 there have been a number of November records (W. Brewster's ' Birds of 

 the Cambridge Region ') and one for Jan. 1, 1875 (Dr. C. W. Townsend's 

 ' Birds of Essex County ') this is the first December record for Massachu- 

 setts. — Henry M. Spelman, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. 



A Winter Record for the Palm Warbler on Long Island, N. Y. — 



In the plains country south of Hicksville, on Dec. 13, 1914, the writers 

 saw an example of Dendroica palmarum palmar um (Gmelin), and were 

 enabled to examine it carefully through field glasses at a distance of only 

 a few paces. The bird was first flushed from a pile of brushwood over- 

 grown with brambles. Thence it flew into a cultivated field and skulked 

 among growing cabbage heads, but after being stalked by us for a few 

 minutes it returned to the thicket where we positively identified it. 



Eaton's ' Birds of New York ' (1914) quotes no winter record of the 

 species in New York State, and Braislin's Long Island ' List ' (1907) gives the 

 latest autumn record of this subspecies as October 10 (and on this date I 

 saw one at Forest Hills, L. I., 1914 — C. H. R.).— R. C. Murphy, Brooklyn 

 Institute Museum, and C. H. Rogers, American Museum of Natural 

 History, New York City. 



The Blackburnian and Bay-breasted Warblers at Martha's Vine- 

 yard, Mass. — These warblers are quite rare in ea tern Massachusetts, 

 therefore it may be well to record the following observations : 



Chapman notes in his ' Handbook of Birds of Eastern North America ' : 

 Blackburnian Warbler, "Cambridge, T. V., uncommon." Bay-breasted: 

 •" Cambridge, rather rare T. V." 



