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must have been at least a dozen in the tree. They were seen every day 

 in good numbers up to about the middle of March, and throughout the 

 remaining part of the winter a small flock of ten or a dozen were constant 

 residents of the immediate vicinity of the above mentioned cemetery- 

 This flock was last seen on March 30. It is their first occurrence in this 

 locality to mv knowledge, and I find no one who ever remembers seeing 

 the bird here before. Pine Grosbeaks (Pinicola e/mcleator) were also 

 observed in the county during December last. — N. Hollister, Delavan, 

 Wise. 



Zonotrichia albicollis and Mniotilta varia at Pasadena, Cal. — On Nov. 

 21, 1S94, while collecting sparrows in a large blackberry patch just inside 

 the western limits of Pasadena I shot an immature female White-throated 

 Sparrow from a flock of Z. coronata, thus adding another record for this 

 species from California. 



Early in the morning of Oct. S, 1895, I shot an immature female Black- 

 and-white Warbler in the Arroyo Seco just west of Pasadena. The bird 

 was at the time alone, and apparently as much at home in Southern Cali- 

 fornia as she would have been east of the Rocky Mountains. So far as 

 I can ascertain this is the second record of this species from California. — 

 Horace A. Gavlord, Pasadena, Cal. 



The Wintering of the Towhee at Longwood, Massachusetts. — I am 

 glad to be able to report the following information in regard to the 

 Towhee {Pifilo e?yt/irofihthal»ius) noted December 25, 1S95, at Longwood 

 (see Auk, Vol. XIII, p. 178). 



Mr. Henry Vose Greenough, who saw the Towhee with me on Christ- 

 mas Day, reported to me having seen on March 23, 1896, a male Towhee 

 about a brush pile, some one hundred and fifty yards from the spot where 

 we had noted the one in December. On March 24 I went with him to this 

 place and in a neighboring hemlock hedge we found Pipilo. 



The brush pile is on the edge of an estate, only a few hundred feet from 

 a stable, pig-sty and hen yard, where food and protection from the win- 

 ter weather were easily accessible. When we started the Towhee on the 

 24th he flew straight for the hen yard and then being pursued, to another 

 hemlock hedge leading us in a circuit back to the brush pile. 



I believe there can be little doubt that this is our Christmas Towhee, 

 which had wintered here, for the following reasons, viz. : Protection and 

 food supply at hand ; a male bird, as was the former one ; in practically 

 the same locality, and because it is exceedingly unlikely that a single bird 

 would migrate northward fully a month in advance of its fellows. 



We have not noted this bird during January and February, though we 

 both have covered the neighboring ground almost daily, because the place 

 is just on the edge of this little patch of woodland and the Towhee evi- 

 dently never wandered far from his brush pile and the farm yard. 



