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The above record is the second for the occurrence of the ceru- 

 lean warbler at St. Johnsbury. The worm-eating warbler is an equally 

 unusual record for Vermont. There is a specimen of this bird in the 

 Fairbanks museum collection which was taken at St. Johnsbury. The 

 olive-backed thrush is rare at St. Johnsbury. The record for the duck 

 hawk is the first for St. Johnsbury as is that of the greater yellow 

 legs. 



XOTES FOR 1918 



Few winter birds were observed during the extremely cold 

 weather of the winter of 1917-1918. A flock of greater redpolls were 

 seen about St. Johnsbury from March 3 to 12, inclusive. These were 

 the only unusual winter visitors that I recorded. White-winged cross- 

 bills were seen in small flocks April 2 to 6. 



On June 8 I saw a pair of rough-winged swallows In a mixed flock 

 of barn and eave swallows. I saw them again on the 9th and a third 

 time on the 21st of June. The last time they were alone. 



Three black-crowned night hercns were seen and heard on the 

 shore of a small pond near the village on the evening of August 26th. 



On August 28 the unusual number of five yellow-billed cuckoos were 

 seen feeding together on tent caterpillars on a wayside tree. 



One Hudsonian chickadee was observed in a deep, dark cedar swamp 

 on October 24. During the present month, January, 1919, one has 

 appeared four times at my feeding table with other chickadees. 



The first St. Johnsbury record for a snowy owl was made on De- 

 cember 4, when I observed one in a swampy woods near one of our 

 remote rural schools. 



Pine and evening grosbeaks appeared early in November, 1918, 

 and are still very numerous January 27, 1919. 



BIRD MIGRATION AT STAMFORD 



Mary A. Sanford 



January, 1917: Bluejays, chicadees, tree sparrows. 



February: Pine grosbeaks, nuthatches, horned larks, snow bunt- 

 ings. 



March: 9, crows; 20, starlings; 21, bluebirds, downy woodpeckers; 

 24, robins; 25, rusty blackbirds, phoebes, meadowlarks; 26, juncos; 29. 

 song sparrows; 31, bronze grackles. 



