General Notes. 1 1 9 



Mr. Wm. Brewster in 1872 found this bird in the same vicinity, but in 

 a locality about five miles farther inland. 



These two records extend the northern range of the Short-billed Marsh 

 Wren, and give it a place among the birds of New Hampshire. — Henry 

 M. Spelm.-^N, Cainbridge, Mass. 



Early Arrival of the Yellow-rump ix Southern Maine. — This 

 morning — March 21, 18S2 — -I found a solitary Yellow-rumped Warbler 

 {Deiidrceca coronata) flitting about in a struggling growth of spruces, on 

 Cape Elizabeth. His arrival is unprecedentedly early for this vicinity. 

 The Yellow-rumps usually reach Portland in the last week of April, 

 sometimes not until after May i, and up to to-day I have never seen one 

 before April 21, which was the date of their appearance in 1879. ^J 

 little friend of this morning was probably only an accidental and tem- 

 porary visitor. Snow still lies from two to three feet deep in the woods, 

 and much blustering, wintry weather must be expected, before the earliest 

 Warblers come to us in earnest. — Nathan Clifford Brown. Portland, 

 Maine. 



Late Stay (probable Wintering) of Dendrceca pinus in M.'^ssa- 

 CHUSETTS. — A few individuals of the Pine-creeping Warbler remained so 

 late with us the last season, that their courage deserves a record. I found 

 four of them on December 5, 1881, in company with Chickadees, in a rocky 

 run thickly set with maples and alders. There were no pines, but a small 

 bunch of them not far away. I shot one, according to rule, to make sure 

 of the species. Being desirous of ascertaining if the}' proposed to spend the 

 winter in that cheerful company, on January i, 1S82, I sent a young friend, 

 who is well posted and a good observer, to the locality, and he reported 

 seeing two of the Warblers so near at hand, perhaps twenty feet, as to 

 make the identification positive. I intended to look for them again 

 in February, but was unable to do so.— F. C. Browne, Framingham, 

 Mass. 



The Hooded Warbler in Western New York. — From various 

 points in the dense forest, on the balmy days of May. comes the common 

 and familiar song of the Hooded Warbler, — che-reek, cke-reek, c/ie-reek, 

 chi-di-ee, the first three notes with a loud bell-like ring, and the rest in 

 very much accelerated time, and with the falling inflection. Arriving 

 early in May, this is one of oin- common summer residents throughout 

 the dense upland forests, occupying the lower story of the woodland home, 

 while the Ccerulean Warbler occupies the upper. Here let me say that 

 in addition to its alarm note, a sharp whistling or metallic c/iip which is 

 very clearly characterized, the Hooded Warbler has two distinct songs, 

 as different as if coming from diflierent species. Never shall I forget how 

 I was once puzzled by this trick. I was strolling in a thick forest, near 

 the corner of a slashing, in an evening twilight in June, when I was sur- 

 prised by a strange whistling melody, — tvhce-reck,-whee-ree-ceh — with 



