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night which brought the orioles ami most of tlu- resident warblers, including 

 the Blue-winged Warbler's relative, V. cArysopfera. 



Mr. Faxon and 1 were especially interested in the presence oi this war- 

 bler, lit ' The Auk ' forOotober, 1907 (p. 444), Mr. Faxon recorded a male 

 Brewster's Warbler which had spout the preceding summer in Lexington, 

 and in the Memoirs of Museum oi Comp. ZooL, 1910 (XL, pp. 57 78), he 

 gave a detailed account oi two female Brewster's Warblers which, mated 

 with V. chrysopiera, bred during the summer oi 1910, in the same locality 

 where the 1907 bird was found. Brewster's Warblers have returned to 

 this locality each year since 1910. 



h\ plumage the offspring Of nil these birds have followed the laws oi 

 Meudelian heredity and the inference IS that F. pinus has bred on some 

 former occasion in the vicinity and that these Brewster's Warblers are a 

 relic oi cross breeding. However, with the exception oi " A nesting of the 

 Blue-winged Warbler in Massachusetts," by Horace W. \\ 'right (Auk, 

 XXVI, No. b October, 1909) in Sudbury, twenty miles to the south, there 

 was. until now. no record oi the occurrence of F. pin us for this immediate 

 region. The appearance this soring of a pure Blue-winged Warbler within 

 half a mile of the Brewster's breeding ground is a bit of corroborative evi- 

 dence that from time to time pure blood may be introduced into eastern 

 Massachusetts. 



Mr. Faxon and I believe that the present bird eannot have been a de- 

 scendant of a loeal V. leucobrfmchialis, for the reason that, without ex- 

 ception, the Brewster's Warblers in Lexington sing the 1*. chrysopkra 

 song Winsob M. Tm it;. Lexington, Mass. 



Birds Observed at Bennington, Vermont. — The following species 

 have been noted by Mrs. Boss and myself during the past few years. 



Colymbus holboellii. Eolbcbll's Grebe. — 1904, Feb. 18, seven 

 taken alive on the snow — unable to fly. 1910, Jan. I. one taken alive. 

 1912, Feb. 12, one taken alive. 1913, Mar. 1 1, one taken alive. 



Alle alle. DoVEKXE.- 1910, May 31, one taken alive but died the next 

 day. 1' was mounted and is now in the State Museum at Montpelier. 

 It was in summer plumage. 



Sterna hirundo. Common Tern. 1907, May 30, one seen. 



Aythya marila. American Scaup Duck. — 1911, Oct. 25, one 

 shot. 



Harelda hyemalis. Old Sqtj lw. - 191 1. Nov. 13, one shot. 



Rallus elegans. KlNG RAIL.- - 1910, one spent the month oi May in 

 a swamp in this town. 



Calidris arenaria. Sander] inu 191 1. Sept. 25, one taken alive but 

 injured: lived only a few days. Mounted and is in the State Museum. 



Limosa hiemastica. HUDSONIAN Godwit, 1911, Sept. 5, one taken 

 alive with a broken wing. 



Aquila chrysaetos. dot tux Fviur. — -1911. Oct. 26, one shot — 

 mounted and is in a private collection. 



