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Warbler is abundant during both migrations, but more abundant 

 in the autumn than in spring. On November 14, 1906, I procured 

 a female in my yard. The day upon which the bird was shot the 

 thermometer registered 28°. My latest previous record is October 

 29, 1894, and as far as I am aware the bird taken November 14, 

 1906, is the latest record for the United States with the exception 

 of one from southern Florida taken or observed on November 16, 

 1887. (See Distribution and Migration of North American 

 Warblers, Bull. Biol. Survey, No. 18, 1904, by Wells W. Cooke.) 



Sitta canadensis. Red-breasted Nuthatch. — In 'The Auk,' 

 XIII, 1896, p. 85, the writer recorded two birds of this species from 

 Long Island, taken November 14, 1895. Since these birds were 

 observed I have found the species to be an irregular autumn and 

 early Avinter visitor, as the following records will show: Long 

 Island, November 27, 1901. Shot six and saw upwards of a hun- 

 dred in pine and cedar woods; also shot two on December 26 at 

 the same place. Dewees Island, December 18, 1903. Took an 

 adult male. Oakland plantation, Christ Church Parish, October 

 29, 1906. Shot an adult male, the specimen being the only one I 

 have as yet observed on the mainland. My friend Mr. Herbert 

 Ravenel Sass observed two birds in his garden in Charleston on 

 October 29, 1906. Long Island, November 3, 1900. Saw up- 

 wards of twenty-five and obtained two. Dewees Island, November 

 17, 1906. Shot two males and observed perhaps thirty individuals. 



This species shows moult when it arrives, and as long as it re- 

 mains, which is certainly remarkable. The birds feed upon the 

 seeds of the pine and cedar and seem to be particularly fond of 

 the seeds of the latter tree. While the birds have been common 

 in November, 1901, and November, 1906, they apparently do not 

 remain through the winter months, but disappear almost as sud- 

 denly as they arrive. Mr. James P. Garick, Jr., informs me that 

 the birds were very abundant at his home in Weston (a few miles 

 south of Columbia) in the autumn of 1906, and I have a very high 

 plumaged male taken by him on October 10, 1906. 



Polioptila caerulea. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. — Although this 

 species is said to winter from "Florida southward" by Mr. Chap- 

 man (Birds of Eastern North America, 1895, p. 394) and also by 

 Mr. Ridgway (Birds of North and Middle America, Part III, 



