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Purdie as just cited, but adding that he learned 

 from Mr. Jencks that the Connecticut part of this 

 record was a mistake, all the specimens in mention 

 having been taken in Rhode Island (B. Conn., 1877, 

 pp. 8, 9). In 1878 Mr. R. Deane gave an instance 

 of the capture of a specimen at Chatham, Mass., Nov. 

 18, 1877 (Bull. Nuttall Club, iii, Jan., 1878, p. 45). 

 This Massachusetts record is quoted by Allen (Bull. 

 Essex Inst., x, 1878, p. 12). In 1878 Dr. Brewer 

 restored the long-waiting bird to the list admitted by 

 him, on the strength of the occurrences reported by 

 Purdie and Deane, as just cited (Pr. Bost. Soc., xix, 

 1878, p. 301). The same writer was very shortly called 

 upon to again record the bird as one of New England, 

 a specimen having been taken by Mr. F. J. C. Swift 

 in Falmouth, Mass., Dec. 18, 1877 (Bull. Nutt. Club, 

 iii, July, 1878, p. 146, and Pr. Bost. Soc., xx, 1879, p. 

 264). Just as Dr. Brewer's last-cited paper was going 

 to press, in October, 1879, ne was informed of the cap- 

 ture of another specimen by Mr. Arthur P. Chad- 

 bourne at Osterville, Cape Cod, Sept* 26, 1879 5 an d 

 this record was indorsed in a foot-note on the same 

 page (p. 264). Finally, another Massachusetts record 

 was made by Mr. R. Deane that of a young female 

 taken Aug. 27, 1879, at Magnolia (Bull. Nutt. Club, 

 v, Jan., 1880, p. 47). This case warrants the infer- 

 ence that the bird breeds in New England ; and I 

 have no doubt that such will prove to be the case. The 

 discovery of the nest is a mere matter of time. 



The above includes the entire New England record 

 of the Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, so far as known to 

 me. C.] 

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