Bird - Lore 



Blue Jay and against the red squirrel ! — 

 Grace L. White, Watkins, N. Y. 



Yellow-Throated 'Warbler in Central 

 Park 



In Central Park, New York City, on 

 April 15, 1919, I had the pleasure of seeing 

 a Yellow-throated Warbler {Dendroica 

 dominica subsp.)- The yellow throat and 

 breast were plainly seen, as were also the 

 black cheek-patches and streaks on sides. 

 My identification was promptly checked 

 up by examination of skins in the Natural 

 History Museum. The bird evidently 

 stayed in the vicinity, as it was seen 

 authoritatively several times later in the 

 same week. — Laidlaw Williams, New 

 York City. 



[April 16 was a stormy day. On the 17th 

 the bird was seen again by Albert Pinkus, 

 and Messrs. W. DeW. Miller and H. I. 

 Hartshorn, from the American Museum, 

 accompanied him to the Park, corroborat- 

 ing the identification. Dr. E. Eliot has 

 since called Bird-Lore on the 'phone to 

 report having seen the Yellow-throated 

 Warbler on April 17 in an oak tree near 

 the Schiller Statue. The others had seen 

 it at 'the point' .which projects into the 

 lake. It has not been reported since the 

 17th, though observers have been on the 

 lookout for it. Mr. Miller was not satis- 

 fied as to whether the bird belonged to the 

 South Atlantic or Mississippi Valley race 

 of this species, and since he has had power- 

 ful glasses available to determine this 

 point, no one has seen it. — J. T. N.] 



THE SEASON 

 XIII. February 15 to April 15, 1919 



Boston Region. — The past winter un- 

 til mid-February, was one of unusual mild- 

 ness and lack of snow. The latter half of 

 the month, however, bade fair to redeem 

 the vigor of the season with several minor 

 snowstorms and cold days. Yet February 

 22 brought Prairie Horned Larks at Way- 

 land, the first, perhaps, of the migrants to 

 return. A few reports of small roving flocks 

 of Robins and Cedarbirds came in the 

 latter half of the month, perhaps birds 

 that had wintered at no great distance to 

 the south and were already pushing north. 

 The appearance of such flocks in the last 

 week of January, or in early February, is 

 an almost usual occurrence with us. March 

 opened auspiciously with warm, enticing 

 days. Promptly at the first beckoning of 

 spring, on March 5, arrived the vanguard 

 of the migrants. Red-winged Blackbirds, 

 Bronzed Crackles, Meadowlarks, Song 

 Sparrows, Robins, and Bluebirds came all 

 together and in some numbers, a well- 

 marked wave, though of a few of these 

 species scattering individuals had been 

 earlier reported. On the same day a large 

 flock of nearly forty Pine Siskins was seen 



feeding on gray birch seeds. But the fickle 

 New England climate forthwith sent a suc- 

 cession of colder days that stopped further 

 pronounced flights. An unusual abundance 

 of Bluebirds was noted in certain places, as 

 at Arlington Heights, where a flock of 

 forty or more stayed several days on the 

 southerly slopes of an orchard, held up in 

 their northward flight by the cold which 

 reached iq degrees above zero on March 14. 

 The remainder of the month saw little 

 change. There was a small increase in the 

 number of arriving birds but no very 

 marked flight. Juncos came, but not in 

 great abundance, by the 7th and days fol- 

 lowing. Fox Sparrows were reported from 

 towns south of Boston about the middle 

 of March, but their numbers were small in 

 the latter half of the month, and though a 

 few sang from the thickets, they did not 

 become common till the first week of 

 April, when the main flight went through, 

 and had passed by the loth of that month. 

 Flickers seemed less in evidence than usual, 

 and especially the wintering birds. One 

 was heard singing his wake-up roll in 

 Cambridge on March 3, but this was 



