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October 30, "near the edge of a pasture, feeding on the seeds of 

 golden rod, in company with two Black-capped Chickadees." 



Three birds, or more, seen by Mr. Outram Bangs in Wenham- 

 Hamilton on October 30 or 31. 



One bird seen by Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Robbins of Onset at 

 Sagamore Beach on November 2. 



Two birds seen by Mr. Richard M. Marble in Harvard Forest, 

 Petersham, November 4, and on the 15th day "one more." 



Six birds seen by Dr. Walter Faxon and Dr. Winsor M. Tyler 

 on the Belmont lands, November 6; five again seen on the 8th. 

 Dr. Tyler writes, " The five and six birds kept together in a loose 

 flock, and we thought they were associated with Kinglets rather 

 than with P. airicapillus. We watched the chickadees from within 

 three feet and once a bird perched six inches from Mr. Faxon at 

 the height of his knee." It is very probable that in my own ac- 

 counting most of these individuals have been enumerated. On 

 November 20 Dr. Tyler collected one from a flock of four, again 

 seen in Belmont, for the Harvard University Museum. He states, 

 "This bird was identified by Mr. Bangs as an extremely small 

 specimen of P. hudsonicus littoralis," thus deciding the question 

 whether our rare visitants were P. h. hudsonicus or P. h. littoralis. 



Four birds seen together by Mr. G. B. Wellman on Bear Hill in 

 the Middlesex Fells, Stoneham, on November 8. Mr. Wellman 

 writes, "After about one hour spent looking around I at length 

 heard the voice of hudsonicus on the north side of the hill .... and 

 came upon four birds, all of them in most beautiful plumage and as 

 tame as they always are in the mountains. All four were at times 

 but three feet from my hand. Their sides, it seemed to me, were 

 of a deeper rufous color than in the summer." At a distance from 

 these Mr. Wellman heard the call of a fifth bird. 



Five birds seen by Dr. Glover M. Allen with Mrs. Allen in the 

 Arnold Arboretum on November 22. Dr. Allen states, "The 

 flock of five was with one Golden-crowned Kinglet among the 

 spruces at sunset, calling and twittering softly a good deal. Two 

 went to drink at the little brook, hopping down from a birch to the 

 water. They kept to the inside of thick spruces rather low down, 

 but one or two moved out to the ends of the boughs to show 

 themselves." Dr. Allen had seen one bird in the Arboretum on 



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