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May 11 of this year, the writer, while paddling along the shore of Lake 

 Dore, near Eganville, Renfrew County, Ontario, noticed in the alder 

 bushes, which then showed no sign of leafing out, a warbler that seemed 

 somewhat out of place there. On taking it, it proved to be a female D. 

 discolor, with which I am very familiar from Maryland. This is quite an 

 extension of the hitherto known range of this southern warbler. In the 

 'Catalogue of Canadian Birds' by Macoun, there are only two records 

 given for Canada as a whole, both from Toronto, Ontario, both of May 11, 

 1900. Beside this, it has once been taken at Mt. Forest, Wellington 

 County, Ontario. The capture of this more southerly species at this place 

 and date was all the more remarkable, since the weather had so far been 

 highly unfavorable to migration, especially warbler migration. It had 

 been cold nearly eveiy day in May. Of warblers I saw during the whole 

 day only one Myrtle (Dendroica coronata) and one Black and White War- 

 bler (Mniotilta varia). The specimen is now in my collection. — G. Eifrig, 

 Ottawa, Ont. 



Breeding of the Mockingbird near Boston. — A pair of Mockingbirds 

 (Mimus polyglottos) nested near my house in the West Roxbury district 

 of Boston this year (1909) and successfully raised a brood of four young, 

 which when I last saw them were fully fledged and taking full care of 

 themselves. One of the birds made its appearance near my house Nov. 22, 

 1908, and it (presumably the same one) was seen occasionally all through 

 the winter. Up to April 2, 1909, only one bird was seen, and that one 

 had advertised itself as a male by beginning to sing on March 21. On 

 April 2 or earlier it was joined by a female, and from that time on the 

 pair were often seen together, and the male sang assiduously. The nest, 

 which when first discovered, May 20, contained four eggs, was placed 

 about fifteen feet from the ground near the top of a Japanese conifer 

 within about a hundred feet of my house. The young left the nest June 12, 

 and I caught and banded two of them with the aluminum bands furnished 

 by Dr. Leon J. Cole of the Peabody Museum, New Haven. The numbers 

 of the bands are 1453 and 1460. I sincerely hope that neither of these 

 birds will be shot by any ornithologist for the purpose of ascertaining the 

 number on the band, and if any banded Mockingbird is seen in Massachu- 

 setts this fall or next year, I shall be grateful if the observer will communi- 

 cate the fact to me (as well as to Dr. Cole) and will spare the bird's life. 



I have been unable to find any more recent Massachusetts breeding- 

 records for this species than those cited by Messrs. Howe and Allen in 

 'The Birds of Massachusetts' (1901), though Dr. A. L. Reagh tells me that 

 he is credibly informed that a pair of Mockingbirds built a nest and laid 

 eggs in Roslindale, Boston, in 1902, the male being probably the bird 

 observed by me near there March 23 of that year and reported in 'The 

 Auk' (XIX, July, 1902, p. 292), but that the nest was broken up. The 

 records include two sets of eggs taken, one in Springfield by Dr. J. A. Allen 



