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Evening Grosbeaks (Hesperiphona vespertina vespertina) at Man- 

 chester, N. H. On March 6, L913, al 8 o'clock a. m., I - > ■. even Evening 

 Grosbeaks in front of the Woman's Aid Home in Manchester, N. IJ. One 

 was a brilliant male in full plumage, ' be ot tiers varying greatly. They were 

 in :i small mountain ash tree, sixteen feel from where 1 stood, but were, 

 not feeding while I watched them. Later in the morning I located them 

 feeding in maple trees, about four blocks distant from the former location, 

 one brilliant male and six others us before. I publish this note in the in- 

 terest of the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences, other members of 

 ivhich have likewise observed grosbeaks recently. — Edward H. Fogg, 

 .Manchester, A. //. 



An Abnormal Rose-breasted Grosbeak. — On May 15, some friends 

 informed me thai they had seen in this neighborhood a Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak {Zamelodia ludoviciana) with ;i yellow breast. Taking me to 

 the place where they had seen it, in hopes that it might, lie nesting, it was 

 found without difficulty. The color of the breast might be termed a light 

 orange.— Robert Barboi r, Montclair, N.J. 



A Winter Record of the Brown Thrasher in Lancaster, Mass. — 

 During this last winter | 1912 1913) a Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum) 

 took up hi- residence in a Colorado Blue Spruce (Picea pungens) in front, 

 of my greenhouse and apparently had a very comfortable time of it. My 

 gardener became very much interested and every day threw out food and 

 also put the greenhouse cat to " rest." 



The bird as far as I could see was not, injured or crippled in the least. 



February - 1 and 25, my man said be sang, but as a cold simp came on the 

 26th, he stopped .and never tried it again all winter. — John E.Thayer, 

 Lancaster, Mass. 



Two Rare Birds for Massachusetts. — I should like to record the 

 recenl occurrence in Lexington, Mass., of two birds, rare in eastern Massa- 

 chusetts. Shortly before seven in the morning, April 26, 1913, a Carolina 

 Wren ( Thryothorus ludovicianus ludovicianus) passed rapidly northward 

 through my yard, singing loudly. Soon afterward, Mr. Walter Faxon, 

 from his house half a mile to the north, heard the song. An hour later, 

 we followed the wren's nort hward course for nearly a mile until we overtook 

 him, singing from a tangle of brush. From here he turned squarely to the 

 wesl and, still in the brush, continued to an alder swamp where he dropped 

 to the ground to feed and stopped singing. We found no further trace of 

 the bird either late in the afternoon of the 26th or the next morning. 



The second rarity, a Blue-winged Warbler ( Vermivora pinus), visited my 

 garden at 5 o'clock in the morning of May 6, 1913. He was in brilliant 

 plumage, showing no trace of mixed blood. He sang from the top of a 

 flowering plum tree the typical pinus song, — two drawling, buzzing notes. 

 This bird arrived, doubt less, with the heavy migration wave of the previous 



