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plants blossoming- a full month ahead of time. Trillium grandiflorum, 

 (Michx.) Salisb. usually in its prime May 20 to Memorial day, was in 

 full bloom April 29 but, instead of topping plants 12 to 16 inches high, 

 the big flowers were, on the average, only four inches above the leafy 

 carpet of the forest. Viburnum alnifolium Marsh, another plant to put 

 forth flowers in late May, bore full blown cymes on well leaved 

 branches instead of on nearly naked ones as is usual. Most of the de- 

 ciduous trees were well leaved on the date mentioned. 



Mrs. Emily Hitchcock Terry of Northampton, Mass., writes that 

 Dr. B. L. Robinson has identified one of several ferns collected by 

 her at Dorset as Asplenium simulatum Davenp. This is a considerable 

 extension of the range in Vermont of this rare fern. 



The moss Tetraplodon broides (Zoega) Lindb. has been collected 

 on Mount Killington by Mr. Kirk. It has heretofore been reported 

 in Vermont only from Mount Mansfield, A. J. Grout. 



BIRD NOTES 



The golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera) was located 

 in the bushes near Muddy Pond, on Pine Hill, Rutland, by Mr. D. E. 

 Kent, May 30, 1915. Mr. Kent reports that the probabilities are that 

 this bird has nested in this vicinity for a number of years. This is the 

 only record we have at hand for this bird for Vermont. 



A large flight of Tennessee warblers are reported for Rutland in 

 1915. The first birds appeared May 23. They were more abundant about 

 the residential streets than in the country outside the city. They were 

 frequent again in 1916. 



A male bay-breasted warbler was observed by Mr. Charles Sheldon 

 of New York, Mr. G. H. Ross and Mr. George L. Kirk of Rutland at 

 Barnard, June 9, 1915. The bird was a male in full breeding plumage. 

 The location was spruce woods at an elevation of 2,500 feet. No 

 nest was found, and the bird may have been a delayed migrant as no 

 records of nesting for this bird are found in Vermont. The late date 

 would indicate breeding, however. 



Mr. G. L. Kirk has the skin of a fine specimen of a male hawk 

 owl taken at Derby, Nov. 11, 1915, a rough-winged swallow taken at 

 Rutland May 20, 1916 and a Philadelphia vireo taken at Rutland May 

 24, 1916. 



