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it.^ It proved to be a young male. As I was skinning it, half an hour later, 

 another bird of the same species, but duller-colored than the first, appeared in 

 the same pear tree, where it remained for several minutes, uttering a sharp, 

 metallic chip, rather Fringilline in character and recalling the alarm note of the 

 White-crowned Sparrow. On the 23d of the same month still another Orange- 

 crowned Warbler was seen in the garden. It was very tame, and I had an 

 excellent view of it as it flitted about in the branches of an old red cedar 

 directly over me. It was a highly colored individual, with more than the usual 

 amount of yellowish on the under parts. I did not molest it, and it returned to 

 the garden the following day, when Mr. Deane got within eight feet of it as it 

 was hopping about only a few inches above the ground in a barberry bush. Mr. 

 O. A. Lothrop saw an Orange-crowned Warbler in Belmont on November 17 

 of the year last mentioned. 



On the morning of November 7, 1904, Mr. Walter Deane again noted an 

 Orange-crowned Warbler in our garden. It was feeding among some asters, 

 within a foot or two of the ground. Later in the day it was seen in a dwarf 

 apple tree. Mr. Deane was at one time within eight or ten feet of it. He 

 assures me that it "exactly resembled" the bird which I shot and which he, 

 also, saw living, on November 9, 1900. 



My latest record of the appearance of the Orange-crowned Warbler in our 

 garden concerns a bird which I found on the morning of September 30, 1905, 

 directly in front of the museum, among some herbaceous plants growing about 

 the edge of a little artificial pond. Like most of the representatives of its 

 species which have been noted in the garden, this bird was very tame, permitting 

 me to approach within seven or eight feet of it and paying little or no heed to 

 my presence as long as I remained motionless. I watched it closely for upwards 

 of fifteen minutes. During this time it ranged over a space of only a few 

 square yards, although it was incessantly in motion, flitting, hopping and climb- 

 ing about among the stems of the asters and goldenrods, where I saw it cap- 

 ture three large, smooth-skinned caterpillars. These it devoured, not without 

 difficulty, after first reducing them to masses of shapeless pulp by stabbing and 

 violently shaking them with its bill. At frequent intervals it uttered a sharp 

 chirp very like that of the Nashville Warbler. 



iNo. 30,439, collection of William Brewster. 



