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literally crowded with Yellowrumps, among which were intermingled Yellow 

 Redpoll Warblers in lesser but still very considerable numbers. 



In autumn the Yellowrump resorts almost as freely to open as to wooded 

 country, frequenting stubble or cornfields in company with Sparrows of various 

 species, flitting along fences or stone walls by the roadsides, and even alighting 

 on houses, barns or other buildings. At this season, as well as in spring, we 

 often see a few birds in densely populated parts of Cambridge. I have known 

 them to appear abundantly in our garden in the earlier days, when there were 

 extensive fields and orchards near at hand, but of late years they have not 

 visited it in any numbers. 



On January 27, 1868, I saw a Myrtle Warbler at Waverley within what are 

 now the grounds of the McLean Asylum, feeding on the berries of a greenbrier 

 vine, and on February 23, 1883, one was shot in the same locality by Dr. Arthur 

 P. Chadbourne ; on a hillside not far from Arlington Heights a few birds have 

 been found nearly every winter since 1890 by Mr. Walter Faxon. 



205. Dendroica auduboni (Towns.). 

 Audubon's Warbler. 



Casual visitor in autumn ; one record only. 



The record, made over twenty years ago by Mr. Abbott M. Frazar ^ (now 

 M. Abbott Frazar) of an Audubon's Warbler taken in the neighborhood of Cam- 

 bridge, remains the only authentic one for New England. Mr. Frazar shot the 

 bird on November 15, 1876, in Watertown, about a mile to the westward of 

 Mount Auburn and not far from the Adams estate. The specimen, a young 

 male,^ is now in my collection. Although smaller than average examples of 

 auduboni, it possesses the normal amount of yellow on the throat as well as all 

 the other essential characters which serve to distinguish young birds of Audu- 

 bon's Warbler, in winter plumage, from the more or less closely similar young 

 of the Yellow-rumped Warbler. In short the doubts which Messrs. Howe and 

 Allen have recently expressed^ respecting the original identification of this 

 Watertown specimen are wholly without foundation. 



' A. M. Frazar, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, II, 1877, 27. 



2 No. 6925, collection of William Brewster. 



3 R. H. Howe, Jr., and G. M. Allen, Birds of Massachusetts, 1901, 107. 



