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hue has observed the bird at Webster on several occasions. 

 Elsewhere in the state, Dr. A. P. Chadbourne ('85) has record- 

 ed a female shot on September 14, 1884, on Mt. Baldcap in the 

 town of Success, at an altitude of about 800 feet. Mr. G. H. 

 Thayer writes me of one observed at Dublin on October 3, 1899. 

 One was also shot by Mr. R. H. Howe, Junior, on September 

 6, 1899, at an altitude of about 2,000 feet on the Carter Notch 

 trail, Jackson. 

 Dates: September 6 to October 3. 



228. Geothlypis Philadelphia (Wils.). MOURNING 

 WARBLER. 



A not uncommon summer resident, from the White Moun- 

 tain valleys northward, being mainly confined to the tangles of 

 bushes, grapevines, and blackberry canes on the edges of woods 

 or along the mountain brooks ; as a migrant, it is only rarely 

 seen in the southern part of the state. It is said to be common 

 about Lake Umbagog in summer and Dr. Walter Faxon has 

 found it in small numbers during the breeding season about 

 Mt. Moosilauke and North Woodstock. At Intervale, during 

 the summer of 1899, three pairs bred in bushy spots on the out- 

 skirts of a sugar maple grove by the Saco river, the same grove, 

 it may be added, that harbored a pair of Screech Owls and a 

 Wood Thrush. These three pairs I observed almost daily for 

 a large part of the summer. The song period was practically 

 over by the middle of July, but the birds still lingered about 

 their chosen locality until early September. During the first 

 twelve days of July, I occasionally heard the males sing a flight 

 song corresponding to the Maryland Yellow-throat's. This was 

 usually given as the bird flew slantingly downward from a 

 height of some 20 feet, though on one occasion, a bird after a 

 period of silence, suddenly flew out from the bushes in which it 

 had been concealed, nearly straight upward toward a bare limb 

 of a white maple some 40 feet from the ground. Just before it 

 reached the branch it burst into a short, ecstatic song and then 

 settled on the chosen perch. I have found scattered pairs along 

 the Pinkham Notch road, and in the Wildcat Valley have traced 

 them up to the divide in Carter Notch at an altitude of 



