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Connecticut Warbler in Maine. — September 16, 1906, in the woods 

 Of Cape Elizabeth, I saw a warbler which I could not fully identify at 

 the time, but which answered the description of a Connecticut Warbler, 

 the white eye-ring being particularly prominent. The following day, 

 September 17, 1906, a cat brought to a cottage, about 200 yards from 

 the spot where I saw the above mentioned bird, a young male Connecti- 

 cut Warbler. The specimen was taken to Mr. Arthur H. Norton, curator 

 of the Portland Society of Natural History, and was verified by him. 

 The skin is now in the collection of the Society. This, I believe, is the 

 seventh record of this warbler in southwestern Maine. The previous six 

 records are as follows: Brown, Cape Elizabeth, Aug. 30, 1878, Abstract 

 Proc. Portland Soc. Nat. Hist., 1882; Goodale, Saca, Sept. 1885, Sept. 

 8, 1886, and Sept. 15, 1886, Goodale in Auk, Vol. IV, p. 77; Norton, 

 Westbrook, Sept. 20, 1896, Bull. Univ. of Maine, No. Ill, p. 119; Norton, 

 Westbrook, Sept. 5, 1901, Journal Maine Ornith. Soc, Vol. VI, p. 47 — 

 W. H. Brownson, Portland, Me. 



Cinclus mexicanus not a Costa Rican Bird. — In 'The Auk' for Octo- 

 ber, 1891, Mr. Cherrie extended the range of the American Dipper (Cin- 

 clus mexicanus) " south from Guatemala to Costa Rica " and stated that ' 'C. 

 mexicanus is a comparatively common bird along many of the mountain 

 streams" in the last named country while its congener, C. ardesiacus, he 

 considers rare. This record was cited, with an interrogation mark, in the 

 synonymy of C. mexicanus mexicanus on p. 678 of Part III, ' Birds of North 

 and Middle America,' with the observation, in a footnote, that possibly the 

 Costa Rican bird "represented a different form." Since the publication of 

 Part III I have been able to examine the specimens in the Costa Rica 

 National Museum, with the result that all the specimens labeled C. mexi- 

 canus (in Mr. Cherrie's handwriting) are adults of C. ardesiacus while 

 those labeled C. ardesiacus (also by Mr. Cherrie) are young of that species. 

 The two stages are so conspicuously different in coloration (the young of 

 C. ardesiacus being nearly pure white beneath) that, in the absence of 

 specimens of C. mexicanus for comparison, it is scarcely to be wondered 

 that Mr. Cherrie mistook them for distinct species. — Robert Ridgway, 

 Washington, D. C. 



A Carolina Wren in Middlesex Fells, Massachusetts. — On Novem- 

 ber 20, 1906, the call-notes of a wren were heard within the border of this 

 State Reservation on the Wyoming side, and upon investigation the bird 

 was found to be a Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) . It was 

 moving in and about piles of cord wood laid up in the work of cutting out 

 and sawing the large pines and hemlocks which the gypsy moths have 

 killed. I stood with my back to one pile while the activity of the wren 

 about another pile was observed and enjoyed with keen interest. Pres- 

 ently it came over into the pile beside which I stood and worked in among 



