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the primeval forest the song of a male was heard at its regular singing 

 station. Good luck favored us almost at once for the bird came down 

 from the poplars to within fifteen, or at most twenty, feet of us where 

 identification was easy and positive. At that time the song was on the 

 wane and the young were evidently able to fly. As far as I was able to 

 determine, there were but three or four pairs breeding in an area of a 

 hundred acres, about three miles from Morganton. 



Mr. Leverett M. Loomis, in his notes on this species as observed by him 

 at Chester, South Carolina (Auk, VIII, 1891, p. 170), says: "Its appear- 

 ance so soon in August leads to the inference that it breeds near at hand 

 in the mountains." Mr. Loomis's surmise has at length been fulfilled. 

 In the South Atlantic States this species has not been discovered breeding 

 south of the mountains in Virginia. Among the most noteworthy birds 

 that I found breeding near Morganton are the following: Orchard Oriole 

 {Icterus spurius), very rare; Blue Grosbeak {Guiraca car idea), Scarlet 

 Tanager {Piranga erythromelas) , Summer Tanager (P. rubra), Cedar Wax- 

 wing {Bombycilla cedrorum) , Migrant Shrike {Lanius ludovicianus migrans) , 

 very rare ; Mountain Solitary Vireo (Lanivireo solitarius alticola) , Sycamore 

 Warbler ? {Dendroica dominica albilora), Louisiana Water-Thrush {Seiurus 

 motacilla), American Redstart {Setophaga ruticilla), Bewick's Wren 

 {Tkryomanes bewicki), a common breeder. The Cape May Warbler {Den- 

 droica tigrina) was found migrating in large numbers in late April (April 

 22) and up to the middle of May. 



The Raven {Corvus corax principalis) breeds on Grandfather Mountain, 

 and I saw a Golden Eagle {Aquila chrysaetos) on August 17 while it was 

 flying over the town of Lenoir. On August 18, while at Lenoir I observed 

 a brood of Sycamore ? Warblers being fed by their parents. — Arthur T. 

 Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



The Orange-crowned Warbler in New Jersey Again. — There seem to be 

 only four dated records of the occurrence of Vcrmivora celata in New 

 Jersey. These birds were secured in different parts of the State, the last 

 being collected by P. Laurent at Anglesea, October 6, 1889. As being the 

 first recorded capture in twenty years, it seems worth while to mention 

 one which I shot at Haddonfield, February 25, 1909. The bird was feeding 

 in a large pine tree opposite my study window. At first, supposing it to 

 be a kinglet, I gave it little attention. For fully a quarter of an hour it 

 stayed in the pine, flitting from limb to Hmb with the nervous, restless 

 manner of the Redstart. This at last aroused me to surmise that the bird 

 must be a warbler, though present at an unseasonable time of year. The 

 shot, which secured the bird, destroyed its sexual organs. However, Mr. 

 Witmer Stone was inclined to identify it as a female on account of the small 

 size of the orange crown-patch.' — Robert Thomas Moore, Haddonfield, 

 N.J. 



1 For previous records in New Jersey see ' The Birds of New Jersey' by Witmer 

 Stone, p. 271, in Report of the New Jersey State Museum for 1908. 



