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places in the very outskirts of the city of Portland, and also in Falmouth 

 and Scarborough. 



The earliest date on which I have noted the bird's occurrence in spring 

 is March 27. They have frequently shown a tendency to remain late in 

 fall, having been recorded in November several years, in December twice, 

 and in January once, in Westbrook. The winter just passed, 1908-09, 

 a small flock actually wintered on the marshes back of Pine Point Beach in 

 Scarborough, where they were watched with great interest by Mr. Walker, 

 agent of the Pine Point R. R. station. — Arthur H. Norton, Portland, 

 Maine. 



Another Hoary Redpoll (Acanthis hornemanni exilipes) at Westbrook, 

 Maine. — On February 14, 1909, in a garden in the outskirts of Saccorappa 

 village, Westbrook, I collected an adult male Hoary Redpoll. It was 

 accompanied at the time by another bird, which I believe to have been of 

 the same form, but this was not positively determined. Two and three 

 birds had been visiting the place for several days previous to the capture, 

 and I had become positive that one at least was a Hoary Redpoll, undoubt- 

 edly the one secured. — Arthur H. Norton, Portland, Maine. 



Late Records for Siskins in Chester County, Pa. — April 24, 1909. 

 To-day I watched 7 Pine Siskins, Spinas pinus, for several minutes as they 

 were feeding out on the twigs of some young apple-trees close to our lawn. 

 They were extremely active and gentle, and confiding as usual, so that I 

 was frequently within less than fifteen feet of some of them. I find in 

 'Cassinia' for 1904, Mr. Keim noted them at Bristol, Pa., 20 miles north of 

 Philadelphia, on April 24, 1904, and in the same journal for 1902 are the 

 following later New Jersey records, the last one being from considerably 

 farther south than my home: At Plainfield, April 26 to May 11 (Miller); 

 at Moorestown, April 28 to May 5 (Mickle) ; at Bridgeton, May 10 (Rhoads 

 and Stone). 



April 30, 1909. At noon to-day I saw 10 or 12 Siskins busily gleaning 

 on one of the large Norway firs on our lawn. They remained till scared 

 away by a passing trolley car. — C. J. Pennock, Kennett Square, Pa. 



The Third Specimen of the Summer Tanager for Canada. — On May 7, 



while Messrs. J. S. Wallace and B. H. Swales were searching the end of 

 Point Pelee for migrants, Mr. Wallace found a female summer Tanager 

 (Piranga rubra) sitting quietly on a tangle of grape vines growing over 

 some low trees. The bird was immediately shot and is now in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. P. A. Taverner, Detroit. Two other specimens have occurred 

 in Ontario, — one seen near Hamilton in May, 1885 (Mcllwraith, Birds of 

 Ontario, p. 335), the other taken near Toronto in May, 1890, and now in 

 the National Collection of the Geological Survey of Canada. 



From the same locality I received in mid April a male Mockingbird which 

 had been taken by Mr. Albert Gardiner. This is the second specimen of 



