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in the right kind of territory. My specimens were found by beat- 

 ing the weeds bordering a roadway through the P. C. 49 woods. 



The preceding list gives the date of the last summer residents 

 and the number seen; also first and last date, with the number 

 seen of the transient species, together with date of greatest abun- 

 dance and the number; also everything noted after October 1 

 except the city Black-polls. As a bird in the hand is a positive 

 record, beyond all possibility of dispute, a * indicates that one or 

 more were taken on the date to which it is prefixed. I regret that 

 the last Connecticut Warbler was not a positive record. I was 

 resting in the thick undergrowth when the bird came directly 

 toward me and alighted on a log not fifteen feet away. At that 

 distance it would have been ruined for a specimen, and while I 

 was trying to back away it took wing and disappeared. 



