2 Brewster on the Philadelphia Vireo. 



ville, Maine, May 21, 18G3 (Report of Maine Board of Agriculture, 

 1865). During the succeeding nine years it was not again heard 

 from until, on June 2, 1872, Mr. Boardman shot a female at Calais, 

 Maine {Deane^ Bull. N. 0. C, Vol. I, p. 74) ; and almost simulta- 

 neously Mr. Deane and myself detected several at Lake Umbagog 

 (Deane, Bull. N. 0. C, Vol. I, p. 74). Since that time Mr. Deane 

 has again met with it in Maine (Ripogenus Lake, Sept. 11, 1875, 1, c), 

 and ]\lr. Fox has announced the occurrence of a single specimen 

 in New Hampshire (Bull. N. 0. C, Vol. II, p. 15, Hollis, N. H., 

 May 26, 1876). The above-cited references, with a single addi- 

 tional one [Brewster, Bull. N. 0. C, Vol. I, p. 19, Cambridge, Mass., 

 Sept. 7, 1875), comprise, I believe, all the New England specimens 

 which have been previously announced. For the sake of greater 

 completeness, and because of several slight inaccuracies which have 

 crept into the foregoing records, I have thought it best in the fol- 

 lowing account to include all tlie specimens which have fixllen under 

 my observation. 



My first introduction to the Philadelphia Vireo was in 1872, 

 when, on the occasion already referred to, Mr. Deane and myself 

 secured three specimens at Lake Umbagog. They were taken respec- 

 tively on the 3d, 4th, and 5th of June ; but as a few northern-bound 

 Warblers still lingered in the locality, it seemed not unreasonable 

 to suppose that the Vireos were also belated migrants, an inference 

 which was strengthened by the fact that no others were afterwards 

 met with. During the previous season, in company with Mr. 

 Maynard, we had ransacked the same region pretty thoroughly 

 without finding the species at all. Nor was I more successful in 

 1873, when nearly the entire summer Avas spent in collecting at the 

 lake. In 1874, howevei*, I again found them near the same local- 

 ity, and three specimens were taken on August 29, and a fourth on 

 August 31. All of these Avere young birds in freshly assumed but 

 quite perfect fall dress, while the fact that the autumnal migrations 

 had fairly set in made it seem unlikely that they had been reared 

 in the neighborhood. In 1875 my customary visit to Maine was 

 omitted, but I succeeded for the first time in detecting the species 

 in Massachusetts. This was on September 7, when a single speci- 

 men was shot in a willow-tree near Fresh Pond (Bull. N. 0. C, Vol. 

 I, p. 19). 



The country about Upton received a fresh overhauling in 1876, 

 when three Philadelphia Vireos were taken, one on May 29, the 



