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bird mentioned in the records of the Nuttall Ornithological Club as seen by 

 Mr. J. A. Allen "in Cambridge on the 3d or 4th" of August, 1876 ; the fourth, 

 to a male! which I met with at the western end of Rock Meadow on May 24, 

 1884. The fifth record concerns a pair of birds which, with their nest and 

 eggs, were taken by Mr. Charles R. Lamb in the Maple Swamp on June 9, 

 1884, and which are now in my collection. The male was first seen on May 22. 

 The nest was found on June 4, when it contained two fresh eggs, only one 

 more being afterwards laid. 



On June 6, 1890, a Chat was taken at Arlington Heights by Mr. W. P. 

 Hadley.2 In 1891 several birds were observed in Arlington. Two of them — 

 a pair — were seen together in a bushy swamp near Little River on May 31, 

 and again on the following day, by Mr. Walter Faxon. As the male was sing- 

 ing in the same place about a week later, there can be little doubt that these birds 

 were settled for the season and preparing to breed. There is reason to fear, 

 however, that one of them was killed, before the eggs were laid, by two col- 

 lectors, who, in 1 89 1, took no less than four specimens — all males — in Arling- 

 ton and Lexington. 



My latest record of local breeding is on the authority of Mr. J. R. Mann 

 who, under date of June 12, 1905, writes me as follows: "A pair of Yellow- 

 breasted Chats are domiciled near my house at Arlington Heights. They have 

 a nest with four eggs. I shall watch this nest with the hope that the young 

 may be reared to maturity." 



[Wilsonia mitrata (Gmel.). Hooded M^arbler. Mr. Arthur C. Comey has reported that 

 on September 5, 1901, he "identified an adult male Hooded W^arbler ( Wilsonia mitrata) in a line 

 of old privet bushes in the Harvaid Botanical Garden," Cambridge, getting within " five feet " of 

 the bird and "easily " making "out every characteristic of the species.'" 



These are very definite and positive statements, and Mr. Comey, as I take pleasure in testi- 

 fying, is a careful and conscientious young field ornithologist. Nevertheless the fact that at 

 the time of making the above observation he was wholly unfamiliar with the Hooded Warbler 

 in life is sufiicient reason, in my estimation, for ruling that until his record has been confirmed 

 by still better evidence the species to which it relates should not be formally included in the 

 Cambridge list. The Hooded Warbler has been found before in eastern Massachusetts, how- 

 ever, viz., at Brookline'' on June 25, 1879; at Framingham" on October 15, 1893; at Taunton* 

 on May 8, 1888 ; and at Provincetown' on June 25, 1888.] 



iNo. 9137, collection of William Brewster. 



2 W. P. Hadley, Ornithologist and Oologist, XV, 1890, 96. 



3 A. C. Comey, Auk, XVIII, 1901, 397. 



■• R. Deane, Bulletin of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, V, 1880, 117. 

 ^n. D. Eastman, Auk, XIV, 1897, 327. 



*R. H. Howe, Jr., and G. M. Allen, Birds of Massachusetts, 1901, loi. 

 'F. H. Hitchcock, Auk, VII, 1890, 407. 



