1S90.] General Notes. 4°7 



Who were the pair, and what did it all mean? Was this the same kind- 

 hearted Chestnut Warbler that we had watched before, or is there a 

 peculiar strain of human kindness in the blood of the Chestnut family ? 

 If he was the same bird, he certainly deserves a position at the head of an 

 orphanage, for perhaps bis combination with 'fresh air' work is a bit of 

 Warbler wisdom that might be imitated. — FlorenceA. Merriam, Locust 

 Grove, Lewis County, Nexv York. 



Capture of a Second Specimen of the Hooded Warbler in Massachu- 

 s^tts. — Some time ago my friend, Mr. Wilmot W. Brown, Jr., of this city, 

 showed me, among other interesting birds in his collection, a specimen of 

 the Hooded Warbler (Sylvania mitratti) taken at Provincetown, Mass., 

 by Mr. Harry C. VVhorf of Winthrop. I have since obtained full particu- 

 lars of the capture from Mr. Wborf, who kindly permits me to write this 

 note. The bird was an adult male in high plumage, and was shot June 

 25, 18S8, while busily catching insects in a thicket of scrub oaks and 

 bushes. From the date of capture it would seem probable that the War- 

 bler was breeding in the vicinity ; but Mr. Wborf. who watched it for some 

 time before shooting, saw nothing in its behavior to indicate that such 

 was the case, the bird showing no signs of anxiety at his presence, nor 

 anv of the actions characteristic of a bird having a nest or young near by. 

 There is, I believe, but one previous record of the occurrence of Sylvonia 

 mit rata in Massachusetts, that of a specimen taken in Brookline, June 

 25, 1879, as noted by Mr. Ruthven Deane (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. V, 

 18S0, p. 117). — Frank H. Hitchcock, Somerville, Muss. 



Interesting Nesting Site of a Winter Wren (Troglodytes hi on alls') 

 — -Instead of being in " thick, coniferous woods," I found this nest in an 

 upturned beech root in an open part of our deciduous woods. The tree bad 

 lodged after falling to an angle of about forty-five degrees, and the nest 

 was stowed away in the earth among the rootlets. The beech was just 

 off from an unused wood road that had grown up to jewel-weed (/m/xi- 

 ticns pallida) : and ferns filled the space up to the very edge of the gap 

 from which the tree turned back, and formed a pretty fringe on top of the 

 root. The May rains had turned the cavity beneath into a clear pool of 

 water, and filled the swampy land back of the tree with similar pools 

 where Red -eyed Vireos and Scarlet Tanagers came to bathe. — Florence 

 A Merriam, Locust (1 rove, Lezvis County, Nczu York. 



The Hudsonian Chickadee {Pants kudso/ticus) in Vermont and Massa- 

 chusetts. — While passing through a large larch swamp in Sutton, Vt.. 

 Aug. 16, 1SS9, I saw three or four Hudsonian Chickadees in company with 

 a TTumber of common Chickadees. A specimen shot proved to be a bird 

 of the year. I do not remember to have seen any previous record of this 

 species in the State of Vermont. From the date and from the nature of the 

 locality it is probable that the birds bivd there. 



On October iS, 1SS0, I found two individuals of this species in a while 



