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Mr. Weber reported collecting a male Summer Tanager 

 {Piranga r. rubra) at Fort Lee, N. J., May 5. 



Mr. Johnson stated that on May 21 he had found a Law- 

 rence's Warbler {Vermivora lawrencei) near Englewood, N. J.; 

 it was singing the song of the Blue-wing (V. pinus) and finally 

 disappeared chasing a singing bird of that species. Mr. 

 Johnson had recently caught a Greater Yellowlegs (Totanus 

 melanoleucus) in Prospect Park; its first and second primaries 

 were broken, but it flew some three hundred yards when 

 released. 



Mr. Rogers described* his annual try with Mr. W. DeW. 

 Miller for a big day. On May 14, over most of their usual 

 route northward from Plainfield, they had listed 99 species. 

 These included a Woodcock (Philohcla minor) which they 

 heard give the full courtship performance about three times — a 

 late date; a Least Sandpiper {Pisobia minutilla); an unusual 

 number — about 30 each — of Spotted and Solitary Sandpipers 

 {Actitis macularia et Helodromas s. solitarius); two Yellow- 

 bellied Flycatchers {Empidonax flaviventris) and a Mocking- 

 bird (Mimus p. polyglottus). Their Mniotiltidce included the 

 same 24 species they had noted each of the two previous years, 

 and two additional, Golden-wings {Vermivora chrysoptera) and 

 a Prairie {Dendroica discolor). The number of Tennessee 

 Warblers (Vermivora peregrina), six, was nearly twice as 

 many as either observer had noted in all his previous springs. 

 The most striking absentees were the Green Heron (Butorides 

 V. virescens) and the Kingfisher (Ceryle a. alcyon). 



Mr. Hix saidt that on the 13th in the adjoining Dead River 

 district he and Dr. Wm. H. Wiegmann had noted 88 species., 

 including two Tennessee Warblers, and, on the next day, three 

 White-crowned Sparrows (Zonotrichia I. leucophrys). 



Mr. Herbert K. Job told of two Glaucous Gulls {Larus 

 hyperboreus) he had watched for a half-hour March 18 in the 

 harbor at New Haven, Conn.; they were with Herring and 

 Black-backed Gulls (L. argentatus et L. marinus). 



* See "Plainfield, N. J., Mid-May Bird Census, 1916," Wilson Bulletin, 

 1916, 80-81. 



t See "New Jersey Census," Wilson Bulletin, 1916, 145-146. 



