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Prothonotary Warbler in Connecticut 

 in November 



On January 28, 1912, Miss Mary Jen- 

 nings brought to me a Warbler that she 

 had kept in a box on the north side of her 

 house since it was picked up dead in front 

 of a garage in the suburbs of New Haven, 

 Conn., November, 27, 1911. 



The bird had a tangle of plant fiber on 

 one leg, which may have caused its death 

 in a struggle for freedom. It was frozen 

 hard and after thawing it out, I prepared 

 the skin, and I could identify it as no 

 other than a female Prothonotary Warbler. 



The bird was taken to Dr. Allen, at the 

 American Museum of Natural History, 

 and he has pronounced it an immature 

 female Prothonotary Warbler, the first 

 recorded occurrence for Connecticut, 

 and the latest seasonal record for the 

 eastern states. 



The skin has been presented to the 

 museum. — Wilbur F. Smith, So. Norwalk, 

 Conn. 



A Winter Oriole 



On Wednesday, January 3, we had a 

 rare visitor among our birds. It was a 

 very beautiful male Baltimore Oriole. 

 He was first seen at noon eating suet 

 ravenously. The suet was tied on a limb 

 about fifteen feet from the house, and we 

 were able to examine the bird carefully 

 with field-glasses. 



One wing had been injured in some way, 

 and the tip hung about an inch below 

 the normal position. He was indeed a piti- 

 ful sight, as he clung to the limb, with 

 feathers puffed out, literally cramming 

 the suet. After eating steadily for five 

 minutes or more, he sat in the near-by 

 bush, sunning, for fifteen or twenty min- 

 utes, then flew away. We saw him again 

 at the suet at 3 o'clock, and I was able to 

 get a snapshot of him at a distance of 

 sixteen or eighteen feet. On my attempt to 

 draw nearer to him, he flew to an arbor 



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fifty feet distant, going swiftly but with 

 some apparent difficulty, and we have 

 not seen him since. 



The ground was covered with snow, 

 and although the temperature was 31°, 

 he seemed to be suffering from cold. 



We fear that he may have succumbed 

 to the severe weather of the following 

 days.— Lottie Alvord Lacey, South- 

 port, Conn. 



A Second Winter Oriole 



On Dec. 10, 191 2, while visiting a favor- 

 ite haunt of winter birds, along the 

 Wyo missing creek, I saw a Baltimore 

 Oriole. It was with flocks of Goldfinches, 

 Juncos, Tree Sparrows, Song Sparrows, 

 and a pair of Cardinal Grosbeaks, that 

 were feeding in a field that was formerly 

 the bed of a mill dam, now overgrown 

 with weeds, and a tangle of alder and 

 blackberry bushes. I had the bird under 

 observation for one and a half hours, 

 watching it feeding. It fed considerably 

 on the ground, occasionally flying to 

 trees which fringed the field, and picked 

 for grubs under loose bark, pieces of 

 which several inches in length would fall 

 to the ground. It also picked at decayed 

 apples left hanging on the trees. On 

 December 17 and 25, the bird was still 

 there, in company with the above-men- 

 tioned species. On December 31, after 

 a rather severe snow-storm, the bird was 

 not observed. It was a brilliant male, and, 

 though apparently quite lively, did not 

 utter a sound. There could be no mis- 

 taking the bird, which is very common 

 here in summertime, and I had it in 

 view several hours the three different 

 times, as close as twenty feet. — G. Henry 

 Mengel, Reading, Pa. 



A Winter Towhee 



It will perhaps be interesting to know 

 that I have been feeding a Towhee at my 



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