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Hooded Warbler {Wilsonia citrina) at the Delaware Water Gap, Pa., 

 in July. — In the rather dense woodland on the northern slope of Mt. 

 Minsi at the Delaware Water Gap, Pa., I saw a beautiful male Hooded 

 Warbler {Wilsonia citrina) on July 5, 1909. I was in a great hurry un- 

 fortunately and did not have time to investigate. When I passed the 

 bird flew into the lower branches of a tree and called anxiously as though 

 his nest was near. Edward J. F. Marx, Easton, Pa. 



Mockingbird Notes from Massachusetts. — On October 23, 1911, 

 I took at Nantucket a young Mockingbird, and at the same time I saw the 

 two parent birds. There is no doubt from the condition of the plumage 

 that this bird was bred not far from the spot where it was taken. 



Mr. Francis H. Allen recorded in ' The Auk ' (Auk, XXVH, 1910, p. 460) 

 a pair which successfully raised a brood of four young near his house in 

 West Roxbury in 1909, one of the parent birds having been seen off and on 

 from November 22, 1908, the other parent bird was first seen early in 

 April, and the birds were last seen August 8. A Mockingbird was seen 

 in the same locality October 7, 1909, to May 14, 1910, November 6, 1910, 

 to April 14, 1911, and again November 5, 1911; this was presumably 

 the same bird. 



Mr. Horace W. Wright reports seeing Mockingbirds in the Parkway near 

 the Longwood railway station several times in the winter of 1910 and the 

 spring of 1911; three if not four birds were seen repeatedly. These birds 

 were also seen by Mr. E. E. Caduc and other observers. None of these 

 birds was seen after the middle of April. Dr. Charles W. Townsend 

 reports seeing a Mockingbird at Ipswich August 26 and 28, 1910. 

 Mr. Winthrop S. Brooks saw a pair at Manomet, Plymouth County, on 

 December 14, 1911. One of these, a female, he shot and gave to the Boston 

 Society of Natural History. These records show that the Mockingbird 

 is more common in Massachusetts than is generally supposed. — Thomas. 

 S. Bradlee, Boston, Mass. 



A Catbird spending the Winter in Connecticut. — On the morning 

 of January 14, 1912, I was somewhat surprised to see a Catbird {Dume- 

 lella carolinensis) at Old Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, while 

 walking along one of the main roads in the town and about one mile from 

 the sound shore. The temperatures on the morning of the 13th was from 

 15° to 20°. I watched him for about ten minutes as he jumped from bush 

 to bush along the roadside. 



Also saw on February 14 a Belted Kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) in zero 

 weather when the Connecticut river, ponds, coves, etc. were frozen from 

 fifteen to twenty-four inches thick and no chance for good fishing. A 

 single Kingfisher spent the winter at Hadlyme two years ago, 1910. — 

 Arthur W. Brockway, Hadlyme, Conn. 



