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Brewster's warbler. The type specimen was 

 taken by Mr. William Brewster at Newtonville, 

 Massachusetts, May i8th, 1870. It was not until 

 some six years later, April, 1876, that the bird 

 was described and named by Mr. Brewster. 

 During this long interval it was one of many 

 birds in his private collection ; and while he 

 and other young naturalists who visited him 

 recognized that it was like no other bird, yet it 

 appeared, on the whole, to be something like a 

 female golden-winged warbler. However, it was 

 at last given a name. This naturally attracted a 

 wider attention than had the solitary specimen in 

 the cabinet. On May 12, 1877, Mr. Christopher 

 Wood killed the second recorded specimen at 

 Clifton, Pennsylvania. Like the first it proved 

 to be a male, and was almost identical with 

 the type in appearance. The third recorded 

 individual was killed long before either of the 

 others. It was found in the collection of the 

 Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, labelled " J. 

 C., 20 October, 1862." It had no other his- 

 tory, but it must have been at one time in the 

 collection of John Cassin, Esq., for the label is 

 in his handwriting. As the years rolled on the 

 birds were collected in numbers, until in October, 

 1885, twenty-two had been recorded. From that 

 time the records have increased, and there are 

 now something considerably over a hundred of 



