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and many of them very common, not an 

 individual was noted: Kingbird, Crested 

 Flycatcher, Wood Pewee, Rose-breasted 

 Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting, Scarlet Tanager, 

 Red-eyed and Yellow-throated Vireos, 

 and Cape May, Bay-breasted, Black-poll, 

 Blackburnian and Canada Warblers; of 

 still others there were but one or two 

 lonely specimens. Toward the end of the 

 week a heavy movement set in, and ob- 

 servers agree that the height of this 

 spring's migration was on May 19 (96 

 species were noted by Mr. A. A. Saunders 

 at Norwalk, Conn., on this day), but 

 there must have been a general departure 

 that night, as few transients were present 

 next morning. A hardly less notable wave 

 followed which lasted at least over Dec- 

 oration Day when 250 Barn Swallows, a 

 Tennessee Warbler, and other Warblers 

 and other transient land-birds were seen 

 at Long Beach, L. I., as well as 1,200 

 shore-birds of ten species, including six- 

 teen White-rumped Sandpipers. On the 

 26th and 27th Mr. J. T. Nichols and the 

 writer noted, without special effort, ninety- 

 two species at Mastic, L. I. — one flock 

 contained eighteen species of Warblers 

 besides other birds. Mr. Saunders gives 

 the following Norwalk dates among those 

 later than previously known from Con- 

 necticut: Sapsucker, May 13; Rusty 

 Blackbird, May 15; Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet, May 16; Junco, May 17; Ruby- 

 crowned Kinglet, May 18; Blue-headed 

 Vireo, May 24; Siskin, May 26; Savannah 

 Spafrow, May 26; Magnolia, Bay-breast- 

 ed and Blackburnian Warblers, June 2; 

 Canada Warbler, June 3; Tennessee 

 Warbler, June 9; Black-poll Warbler, 

 June 10. Tennessee and Bay-breasted 

 Warblers were remarkably common about 

 New York City this spring, and the Cape 

 May was up to its standard of recent 

 years. — Charles H. Rogers, American 

 Museum of Natural History, New York 

 City. 



Philadelphia Region. — April weather 

 being normal, most migrants arrived on 

 time. An early Wood Thrush was noted at 

 Haverford, Pa., by Mr. Wm. L. Baily on 



April 19, and a rather early House Wren 

 was seen at Beverly, N. J., on April 20. 

 These birds usually arrive about a week 

 later. Good-sized flocks of Black Ducks 

 and an increasing number of Wood Ducks 

 were reported at various points. A fine 

 flight of Greater Yellow-legs was observed 

 along the Delaware River. These birds 

 are apparently increasing. The latest 

 reports of Evening Grosbeaks that I have 

 are: Reading, Pa., April 22, Miss Anna P. 

 Deeter; Mt. Holly, N. J., April 26, Mr. 

 N. D. W. Pumyea; Yardville, N. J., May 

 7, Mr. C. H. Rogers. A Blue-gray Gnat- 

 catcher was reported by Mr. Geo. Spencer 

 Morris at Wenonah, N. J., April 2. 



Cold and rainy weather brought us the 

 most unseasonable May in ten years, and 

 while some of the migrants were on time, 

 certainly the bulk of the Warblers and 

 Thrushes arrived from a week to ten days 

 late and seemed very loath to leave; others 

 came crowding in and a congested migra- 

 tion resulted. Between the 20th and 30th 

 of May the woods were alive with birds, 

 mostly Warblers. Of the rarer species. 

 Golden-winged, Wilson's, Cape May, 

 Bay-breasted and Tennessee Warblers 

 were seen at numerous stations. The 

 Tennessee was especially common and its 

 loud Chipping-sparrow-like song was 

 heard on village streets; this Warbler 

 has been rarely noted about here in the 

 spring. About the middle of May a 

 remarkable invasion of White-crowned 

 Sparrows occurred: flock of twenty-four, 

 Reading, Pa., May 17, Miss Anna Deeter; 

 flock of fifty. West Chester, Pa., Dr. C. 

 E. Ehinger; many smaller flocks reported. 

 Some occupied the lawns during their short 

 stay and fed mostly on dandelion seeds. 



On Decoration Day seven members of 

 the D. V. O. C. walked together from 

 Riverton to Camden, N. J., and recorded 

 eighty-two species, including seventeen 

 transient species, few, if any, of which are 

 normally here so late in the month. 

 Among them were Herring Gull, Black 

 Tern, and Tennessee, Bay-breasted and 

 Wilson's Warblers. 



Doubtless the birds suffered because of 

 the unseasonable weather, for numbers 



