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I have since been informed by Dr. Brewer that the nest 

 referred to by Mr. Peabody as above "was, without doubt, a 

 Nashville Warbler's. I do not think it occurs," he adds, 

 "nearer than the Hudson Elver."* Prof. Verrill, however, 

 in his list of the birds of Norway, Maine (p. 21), gives it as 

 rare in the southern part of Maine. From its range being 

 generally southern, its occurrence in New England can only 

 be accidental. 



SMALL-HEADED FLYCATCHER. Wilsonia minuta Bon. This 

 rather apocryphal species is given by Peabody as having been 

 met with at Ipswich by Dr. Brewer, and in Berkshire County 

 by Dr. Emmons (Rep. Orn. Mass. p. 297). Dr. Brewer 

 writes me that in 1834 his cat caught a specimen of this 

 species in Roxbury, which he sent to Audubon, though as 

 Dr. Brewer observes, he (Audubon) makes no mention of 

 it. Dr. Brewer remarks: "This was the only one I ever 

 knew or heard of. Ipswich I ignore." Compare with this 

 Dr. Cones' remarks on this supposed species in his "List of 

 the Birds of New England." f 



LONG-BILLED WATER THRUSH. Seiurus Ludovicianus Bon. 

 The first and only specimen thus far known to have been 

 found in Massachusetts I captured April 28th, the present 

 year, on Mount Tom. There is another in the Museum of 

 Comparative Zoology, taken by Irving Frost, at Norway, 

 Maine, in May, 1865. These two I believe are all the speci- 

 mens known from New England, its actual occurrence in the 

 Eastern States being now for the first time reported 4 



BLACKBURNIAN WARBLER. Dendroeca Blaclcburnioe Baird. 

 Mr. Bennett found the young of this species this year near 

 Holyoke that were scarcely able to fly. This establishes its 

 breeding in Massachusetts. This fact I had already inferred, 

 as in 1863 I shot it in Springfield, June 24th. Mr. J. G. 

 Scott also shot it in Westfield, late in June, 1866. Some 



*Inepist.. May8, 1869. 

 fProc. Essex Inst., Vol. v, p. 275. 



J See concerning this species Dr. Coues' List of New England Birds, 1. c. p. 271. 

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