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the Canal feeder. The male was full grown and had a crest which 
fell on its back as it rested on the water. The female was not fully 
grown and its plumage was very much ruffled up. The birds were 
quite fearless, as they allowed me to approach within fifty feet 
before rising to wing, and on rising just moved far enough off to 
be at a safe distance. On following them up stream they kept about 
160 feet ahead of me for over a mile. 
Willdeer (Oxryechus vociferus). At Pompton Plains on March 
26th, four of these birds were found on the banks of the river 
searching the sand for food, which they were finding in great 
abundance. This bird is not as abundant of late as formerly and 
only found occasionally during the vernal migrations. 
Bloomfield, N. J. Louris S. Konwuer. 
THE CONNECTICUT WARBLER IN MAHONING Co., OHI0.—October 3, 
1910, early in the morning, I started a Connecticut warbler from 
the rank encircling growth of a button-bush swamp. He flew to 
a twig and sat intently regarding me, while I just as intently ex- 
amined him through the binoculars as he paused in the effulgence 
of the ascending sun. His yellow was not strong nor was the 
slaty gray of the throat and fore-breast, but the eyes were plainly 
encireled by that white.ring which it is so important to look for 
and which distinguishes him from the mourning warbler. 
A moment more and he was satisfied with his examination and 
dashed from sight like a tiny olive-backed or gray-cheeked thrush, 
to which, in expression of eye, attitude, and general behavior he 
bore no little resemblance. By no amount of beating about the 
bush or wading through the wet outer tangle of jewel-weed, span- 
ish needle, fire weed and wild-rose bushes could he be forced to 
reveal himself again. Z 
Dawson, in his Birds of Ohio, regards this as one of the rarest 
warblers of the state, and evidently not without reason. 
This is the writer’s third record for this bird during a period of 
eleyen years’ observation at this station. This was in all proba- 
bility a male. The first record was a female secured from high 
tree-tops in September, 1906. While the second bird was observed 
in the low herbage of a hillside thicket May 28, 1909. This bird, 
like the one of last autumn, was examined carefully at short 
range and identified beyond any doubt. 
It may be noted that so far IT have never recorded the mourn- 
ing warbler in autumn. 
Bilsworth, Ohio. EXRNEST WATERS VICKERS. 
