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The Capo May Warbler ( Dendrofal tigrina) Taken in the Spring 00 

 the Coast of South Carolina Dr Louis B Bishop, while paying me t 

 visit ni the Bpring of 1912, shot two Cape May Warblers a male and a 

 Female -on April 23, 1912, and, on the same das :,,u ' n ' '' u> s:im(> plaoe, 

 I took three o\ these birds rhe Cape Maj Warbler lias not been seen 

 or taken in < ho spring by the writer in the past thirty years and he is in- 

 debted to Dr. Bishop, who took the first specimen, for finding the birds 

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Catbird ami Brown Thrasher m Winter in Massachusetts On 

 Christmas Day, 1911, in the Arnold Arboretum at Jamaica Plain, Massa- 

 chusetts, l saw a Catbird (DumeteUacaroIinsnsis) in some shrubbery about 

 three hundred yards bom tin- museum li was quite lively though Bilent 

 and rather shy. Pwenty days later, on January 14, L912, 1 again savt what 

 was probablj the same bird rhis time it was apparently sunning itself 

 in the vines on the museum. After allowing a rather near approach it 

 tlow across the road into some bushes, where it remained still seeking the 

 Bunshine and as before, silent rhe weather was dear and oold with a 

 minimum temperatute of one degree below sero ami the Catbird aoted, 

 as it well might, as if it was hair frosen. rhe l>u.l was not observed after 

 this date and as shortly afterwards some Catbird feathers were seen snow a 

 around about the museum it probably came to an untimely end 



While walking in the Arboretum on the morning of Deoembei 22, 1912, I 



.-aw a brown rhrasher (l\\:\-- am) OH the ground VOTJ busil) at 



work poking among the leaves with its bill, rhe bird «ms verj tame and 

 l approaohed to within four feet of it, hardlj any notice being taken o\ mo 

 It did not utter a note of au\ kind neither did it leave the ground while 

 l was there it lias not boon seen since, the snowstorm of Christmas Eve 

 probably driving u southward Harold I. Barrbtt, Jamaica .''. 

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Brown Thrasher Wintering near St. Louis, Mo rhe winter of 

 1912 IS has boon loniarkabb mild with vory little precipitation. The 

 ground has not boon completely covered with snow tins winter in the brush- 

 covered portions of the bottomlands, and the lowest temperature was four 

 aU>\ o iero, on February i 



On Feb. 2, 1913, at Creve Coeur Lake, in a well sheltered area oi thick 

 underbrush in the Missouri River v bottomlands fourteen miles north of 

 St. Louis, 1 had the good fortune to observe at close range a Brown 

 Thrashei ^ Posostoma rt\fum). It was the day after our coldest weather 



and a light snow was falling The bird was scratching in t ho doad loa\ os 



in search of u^^\ and from all appearances was in excellent condition, it 

 tlow fiom bush to bush as l pursued it and seemed verj much at homo in 

 its surroundings Mr Widmann >j.i\o< no record of the bird wintering 

 near ^t. Louis and gives March is. 1882, as the earliest date o\ spring 



arrival. 11 C YYit.i.i wis. N.' !,<.:<. Wo, 



