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fear, giving 'me ample opportunity for studying it. I identified the 

 birds as the golden-winged warbler, helminthophila chrysoptera. 



Mrs. Inez A. H. Griswold of St. Johnsbury describes thus her 

 observation of hooded warblers. While driving on May 28, 1907, I 

 noticed in some yellow birch saplings a pair of beautifully marked 

 birds, the marks appealing most strongly to me being their black 

 hoods, white marks on their tails and a flash of yellow as they moved 

 in and out among the leaves feeding. I hastened to the Fairbank's 

 Museum where with Miss Griffin's aid, I looked them up among the 

 specimens and in the more complete key, and identified them beyond 

 doubt as the hooded warbler, Wilso^iia mitrata. I was much delighted 

 to know that this bird had never before been reported in St. Johns- 

 hury. 



In the summer of 1906, a pair of Canadian warblers, Wilsonia 

 canadensis had their nest near a rear window of our house, in a butter- 

 nut branch. There they raised their young and sang their songs 

 utterly oblivious of my daily observations of their- daily life. 



Mrs. Griswold reports also observing a flock of Canada jays, 

 perisorens canadensis, feeding upon frozen apples in the vicinity of 

 St. Johnsbury on Nov. 24, 1907. 



Winter robins have been reported at Brattleboro, Proctor, and 

 Essex Junction. 



Mr. Horton of Brattleboro saw a song sparrow on Jan. 12, 1908. 

 He reports also the kingfisher wintering in that town. 



Mr. R. G. Brock of Wells River reports seeing a pair of red-headed 

 woodpeckers, melanerpes erythrocephalus, on May 12, 1907. In the 

 summer of 1907, a male chewing, pipilo erythrophthadmus, was seen, 

 a rare bird in that vicinity. In March, 1907, as arctic three-toed wood- 

 pecker, picoides arcticus, was taken by a local taxidermist. In Rye- 

 gate crows with strain of white feathers have been noticed for the 

 past fifteen years. 



Mr. H. L. Chapman of Windham has taken a photograph of a wood- 

 cock, philohela minor, sitting upon its nest. The photograph makes 

 an attractive postcard. 



Tne following persons were elected to membership at the winter 

 meeting: 



Miss Clara Barton Burlington. 



Miss Marie Bolker 108 N. Winooski Ave., Burlington. 



Miss Jessie Butler Groton 



Mr. S. D. Brush 31 Church St., Burlington. 



