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she was on. I got within two feet of her, but she would not fly. To get 

 nearer seemed like " adding insult to injury," so I did not try to stroke 

 her back, as I have done before with a brooding bird. But it was not her 

 bravery that made this close-sitting bird unique ; it was the unusual way 

 in which she protected her young from my gaze. She had spread the 

 white feathers of her lower parts out so completely over the young that 

 there was not a vestige now visible of the four young birds that I had 

 found a short time previously filling the nest so full. She " fluffed " herself 

 out so as to hide all traces of the young. For a moment I even thought 

 that during my absence of a few minutes she had brought a great deal of 

 some soft white stuff as additional lining for the nest, as breeding birds some- 

 times do. 



To quote from my journal: " She made a beautiful picture. The whole 

 effect was wonderful. The bird seemed to be sitting in a billowy mass of 

 eider down, or cotton, that swelled, or rather bulged up all around her, a 

 regular ' bed of down.' " This ccerulescens was a remarkably fearless bird. 

 Two days later I went to the nest again. The young had flown, but were 

 close by. It was nearly dusk in the woods. The female " chipping," and 

 with "shivering" wings, came very close, almost as close as she could 

 get without touching me. — John A. Farley, Maiden, Mass. 



The Yellow-throated Warbler in Central New York. — In view of 

 the fact that Dendroica dominica comes into recent " sight record corre- 

 spondence " (Auk, July 1917, p. 373), it might be unwise to record this 

 species on such evidence, but for the fact that none of the three or 

 four records come from northern, central, or western New York. All 

 previous records are from Long Island. It has hitherto been recorded 

 as follows: The first record is from Crow Hill, Kings .County (see Dutcher, 

 Auk,' 10, 277; and Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist, of New York, 6, 8). 

 The second record is also from Long Island, Oyster Bay, July 4-8, 1907, a 

 bird of this species discovered by Mrs. E. H. Swan, Jr., identified by Theo- 

 dore Roosevelt, and recorded in ' Scribner's Magazine,' volume 42, page 387 " 

 (Eaton, E. H., Birds of New York, Part 2, p. 424). The third record was 

 made at Brooklyn, N. Y., April 28, 1917, by Edward Fleisher (Bird-Lore, 

 May-June, 1917, No. 3, p. 150). The fourth was made at the same place, 

 a day following, April 29, 1917 (Auk,' XXXIV, July, 1917, pp. 341-342). 



The bird Mr. S. E. R. Simpson and I saw was in high spruce trees one 

 half mile west of Spring Lake, Conquest, Cayuga Co., N. Y. When we first 

 heard it my companion was looking for Myrtle, Black and White, and Black- 

 throated Blue Warblers to complete a list of 95, and I said instinctively, 

 " I guess there is your Myrtle Warbler." " No," he replied, " we had 

 better look at it. It is Yellow-throated Warbler." I felt the determina- 

 tion absurd considering its range, but the bird proved a fine male Dendroica 

 dominica, and was clearly seen with glasses (x4) and with naked eye at 

 25-50 feet. I know the true Yellow-throated Warbler and could see no 

 striking yellow before the eye in this bird. Inasmuch as we had not the 



