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There are a number of Myrtle Warblers, a few Song Sparrows and Chick- 

 adees nearby and which occasionally alight in the trees which he seems to 

 consider as his especial property. This apparently troubles him not a little 

 and he usually drives the intruders away after watching them for a minute 

 or two. 



I thought this item might be of interest, as the Cardinal is almost never 

 recorded in New England, and in the course of twenty years of bird study 

 in this vicinity I have never had the fortune to meet with one before. — 

 Frank A. Brown, Beverly, Mass. 



Dendroica discolor and Dendroica vigorsi in Eastern Massachusetts in 

 Winter. — January 2, 1909, I shot a Prairie Warbler at South Yarmouth, 

 Mass. The bird was on a dead pine that had fallen to the beach from the 

 sand bluffs and was probably in company with several Myrtle Warblers 

 that were in the vicinity. Unfortunately the bird was so badly mutilated 

 that I did not save it. Mr. F. H. Kennard was with me at the time, and 

 the next day in the same town saw at close range another bird of the same 

 species. This bird was among a mixed flock of Pine and Myrtle Warblers, 

 Red-breasted Nuthatches, Kinglets and Chickadees. 



There were somewhere between 25 and 50 Pine Warblers in this flock, in 

 both adult and first winter plumage. — F. B. McKechnie, Ponkapog, Mass. 



The Carolina Wren at New Haven, Conn. — • The Carolina Wren (Thryo- 

 thorus ludovicianus) was reported as a rare resident at New Haven from 

 about 1901 to 1904, but so far as I am able to ascertain none have been 

 seen here since the severe winter of 1905-06 until December, 1908. On 

 the 25th of December, Mr. A. W. Honywill, Jr., saw one of these birds in 

 Edgewood Park. Four days later, on the 29th, I was attracted by the loud 

 song of a Carolina Wren and succeeded in positively identifying two indi- 

 viduals. These birds were in the same locality as the one seen on the 25th. 

 On January 2, 1909, I took a Carolina Wren only a few hundred yards 

 from the above mentioned Park, thus absolutely proving the presence of 

 the birds in this locality. — Clifford H. Pangburn, New Haven, Conn. 



Breeding of the Louisiana Water Thrush in Philadelphia. — The status 

 of the Louisiana Water-Thrush (Seiurus motacilla) in Pennsylvania is, to 

 say the least, peculiar. Common in the southwestern counties, it grows 

 scarcer in the east, and though found regularly in the valley of the Susque- 

 hanna, and even in company with S. noveboracensis on the tops of the Alle- 

 ghanies, the general opinion of our ornithologists seems to be that it is one 

 of the rarest breeders in the southeastern area. For many years this idea 

 has prevailed and it is with the hope of fixing the correct status of the 

 Louisiana Water-Thrush that this article is written. 



Beyond a doubt, the bird is rare within the counties of Delaware, Chester, 

 Bucks and Montgomery, but in Philadelphia it would seem to claim a 

 place as a regular summer resident — at least in the Wissahickon Valley. 



