VERMONT BIRD CLUB 23 



ed warbler, Canadian warbler; 21, quail; 23, black-crowned 

 night heron, yellow-throated vireo, least sandpiper; 25, wood- 

 cock; 26, black-billed cuckoo; 28, grasshopper sparrow. Hens- 

 low's sparrow; 30, sharp-shinned hawk; June 2,whippoorwill; 

 30, broad-winged hawk; July 5, house wren; g, yellow-billed 

 cuckoo, pine warbler; [ r, red-headed woodpecker; 12, upland 

 plover; August 2, green heron; 3, pied-billed grebe; 4, blue 

 heron; 11, Cooper's hawk; 12, Virginia rail; 24, night hawk; 

 September 12, lesser yellow legs, pigeon hawk; 18, mallard, 

 screech owl; October 29, barn owl, long eared owl; 30, Ameri- 

 can scoter; November 7, northern raven; 22, black duck. 



Dr. Ross appends the following as unusual or exceptional 

 observations: meadow larks remaining all winter; white-winged 

 crossbills in Bennington; a flock of over thirty evening gros- 

 beaks remaining from April i to 20; a black-crowned night 

 heron, one individual observed on three different days; Henslow's 

 sparrow, a pair observed many times, but unable to locate nest; 

 barn owl, one shot; American scoter, seven were shot on Lake 

 Paran, North Bennington and some were mounted; northern ra- 

 ven, one shot by Mr. Ira Adams of North Bennington, has been 

 mounted and is now owned by him. 



BIRD NOTES. 



In a letter to the secretary, Mr. F. G. Floyd of West 

 Roxbury writes: "You may be interested to learn of a rare bird 

 we detected in your state two years ago, (1908), at Wilmington 

 just below the peak of Haystack Mountain and at the shore of 

 the pond there. I observed a small number of Cerulean 

 Warblers while alone on a botanical trip. At that time the bird 

 was not known to me but the blue bird of small size assured me it 

 was something uncommon. The next day my wife accompanied 

 me to the same locality and we were fortunate in observing and 

 getting a good close view with our glasses of another individual 

 that Mrs. Floyd identified as that species. This bird is not 

 listed in Chapman's Warblers from Vermont. When we dis- 

 covered that we were not so sure of our identification and par- 

 ticularly as our old friend, Mr. Purdic, a veteran bird man, was 

 rather inclined to distrust it. I was considerably surprised 

 when on casually looking over the list of birds in Thompson's 

 Vermont, (1853), ^^ *^"^ ^his bird given as a Vermont bird. 

 I shall be pleased to know if you have any other records of it in 

 your state. 



