Notes from Field and Study 



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ing those contained in 'The Season' of 

 the present issue, we have received the 

 following: 



S. Paul Jones reports two males and 

 three females at Waukesha, Wis., on March 

 25 and 26, and April i, 191 7. Lida Rogers 

 sends the first authentic record of their 

 occurrence at Holland, Mich., where a 

 flock of about twenty-five appeared late 

 in January, 191 7, some of which were 

 present when she wrote on March 5. 

 Ida A. McAfee writes that she saw four 

 males and eight females at New Bedford, 

 Mass., on February 27, 1917. E. B. 

 Moore reports a flock of five at Bantam, 

 Litchfield Co., Conn., on March 15, 1917; 

 the only previous record for that locality 

 was February 14, 1905. B. F. Case 

 writes that fifteen or twenty Evening 

 Grosbeaks appeared in Tolland, Conn., 

 just before Christmas. Later the flock 

 increased to above fifty, of which thirteen 

 were adult males. They remained about 

 a month. 



Several flocks were observed at Engle- 

 wood, N. J., where they were last 

 seen April 11. At Hammonton, N J., 

 Mary P. Conkey reports seeing from 

 thirty to fifty Grosbeaks on March 11, 

 and on April 22 they were still present. 

 This appears to be the most southern 

 record for the species. — Ed. 



Interesting W^inter Bird Records in 

 Northern New Jersey 



Several interesting bird records have 

 been made in northern New Jersey during 

 the past winter. Near Skillman, N. J., 

 Mr. Henry G. Plump picked up a male 

 Cardinal in the road on January 3, which 

 was unable to fly. The occurrence of a 

 Cardinal in that portion of the state is 

 unusual. The bird was carried to Mr. 

 Plump's home and seemed to recover 

 somewhat, but died the following night. 



On February i, a boy found a male 

 Baltimore Oriole at the corner of First 

 and Clay Streets, Hackensack. This bird 

 also was unable to fly. It was taken to Mr. 

 Arthur Bratt, Deputy Warden of Hacken- 

 sack, who endeavored to keep it alive 



until weather conditions would permit its 

 liberation. Mr. Bratt kept the bird until 

 February 11, when an unfortunate escape 

 of gas from a coal-fire during the night 

 caused its death. In the meantime it had 

 seemed well and lively, feeding freely on 

 bread, canary seed, oatmeal, boiled pota- 

 toes, lettuce, suet, and such scraps as 

 were convenient. 



This winter has marked an exceptionally 

 conspicuous eastern flight of Evening 

 Grosbeaks. These birds have been 

 reported from Blairstown by Mrs. D. C. 

 Carter; for several weeks prior to March 

 9, they having fed about her doorstep; 

 from Morristown, by Mr. Eugene Van- 

 derpool, having been observed about the 

 same time as the prior record. On January 

 3 an Italian in Old Tappan shot five of 

 these birds, and they were brought to the 

 writer for identification by the State Fish 

 and Game Warden for Bergen County, 

 Mr. William H. Small, who effected an 

 arrest after being murderously assaulted 

 by the Italian, who was sentenced to no 

 days for the offence. These birds were all 

 in the female or immature plumage. Miss 

 Mary Pierson Allen has had a flock of nine 

 bright males and some thirteen females 

 or immature-plumaged birds about her 

 home in Hackettstown for some weeks. 

 Using a dish of water as a lure, she suc- 

 ceeded in attracting them to the spot of 

 ground where she was feeding Purple 

 Finches, Juncos, Fox and Song Sparrows, 

 and Chickadees with bread crumbs, 

 scratch-food and sunflower seed. Here the 

 Grosbeaks have been feeding daily on the 

 sunflower seed, which they quickly learned 

 to enjoy, and at this place the writer 

 secured nine photographs. Some of the 

 females or immature birds even became 

 sufficiently tame to alight on Miss Allen's 

 hand to feed. 



Mrs. Wilson Senseman, of Atlantic 

 City, has been entertaining a Mocking- 

 bird which appeared at her home there 

 during the second week in November. 

 This bird fed on the poke-berries and 

 grapes which had been planted for the 

 birds and accepted suet tied to the trees 

 and currants and grapes which were 



