I 02 DuTCHER on Long Island Birds. [April 



of the New Jersey coast near Atlantic City, but never met with it any 

 further north." Since my previous records* I have had two additional 

 specimens reported to me by Mr. John C. Knoess, who writes : "I have a 

 beautiful specimen, killed last April (iSS6) at Manor, Suftbik Co., and 

 another at Promised Land, also in Suffolk Co. They are the first I ever 

 saw on the Island." Can it be that this species is extending its range 

 northward.'' 



22. Protonotaria citrea. Prothoxotary Warbler. — Neither Mr. 

 Giraud, in 1844, "or Mr. Lawrence, in 1866, gave this species in their 

 Long Island lists, nor can I find a well authenticated record for the State 

 of New York. I now have the pleasure, however, of adding this beautiful 

 Warbler to the New York birds, through the kindness of Capt. Scott, who 

 sent me one that struck the light at Montauk Point, during the night of 

 August 26, 18S6. It was found dead at the base of the tower on the follow- 

 ing morning. The night was hazy, with wind changing from northeast 

 to southwest. So far as Capt. Scott knows the bird was alone, that is, he 

 found no others dead, nor did he see any about the lantern. He states 

 that it was the first one of the kind that he had ever seen. This record, 

 taken in connection with that made by Mr. William Brewster, in this 

 journal, October, 1886, f is particularly interesting. The two specimens 

 taken by Mr. Brewster at Concord, Mass., were shot on August 17 and 

 23, and my specimen struck the lighthouse on the 26th. Perhaps this 

 last specimen was one of the family from which Mr. Brewster secured 

 two members, but if not so, it certainly to some degree bears out his 

 claim, "that during 1SS6, at least, there has been a regular, if limited, 

 flight into and from New England." 



23. Dendroica striata. Black-poll Warbler. — Of the five hundred 

 and ninety-five birds which were killed by striking Fire Island Light, 

 September 23, 1887, no less than three hundred and fifty-six of them were 

 of this species. Among them I found a very beautiful partial albino. 



24. Dendroica palmarum. Palm Warbler. — During the night of 

 the 23d of September, 1887, a great bird wave was rolling southward 

 along the Atlantic Coast. Mr. E.J. Udall, first assistant keeper of the 

 Fire Island Light, wrote to me that the air was full of birds. Very many 

 of the little travellers met with an untimely fate, for on the foUoAving 

 morning Mr. Udall picked up at the foot of the light house tower, and 

 shipped to me, no less than five hundred and ninety-five victims. Twenty- 

 five species were included in the number, all of them being land birds, 

 very nearly half of which were Wood Warblers (Mniotiltidje). Among 

 these I found one female Palm Wai-bler. This is the first record for Long 

 Island of the western form, those included by Mr. GiraudJ and Mr. 

 Lavvrence§ in their lists being undoubtedly the eastern form, hypochrysea. 



* Auk, Vol. Ill, 1886, p. 442. 



t Auk, Vol. Ill, 1886, pp. 487, 488. 



X Birds of Long Island, p. 59. 



\ Ann. N. Y. Lye. Nat. Hist,, VIII. April, 1866. p. 284. 



