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RARER BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 515 
TENNESSEE WARBLER. Helminthophaga peregrina Cab. 
This species, generally rare here, appears to have been 
much less so this year than usually. Mr. Maynard took five 
at Newtonville during May 18th to the 23d,—the first, he 
says, he had seen. He informs me that his friend Mr. 
William Brewster procured at about the same time two near 
Mount Auburn. I have taken it repeatedly at Springfield, 
where I have always esteemed it rare; but Mr. Boardman 
says he finds it quite common near Calais, Maine.* 
GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER. Lelminthophaga chr} -ysoptera 
Baird. This beautiful warbler has been taken, so far as I 
can learn, but a few times in the western part of the state ; 
it seems to be more common in the eastern, where it breeds. 
I saw it once in July at Springfield, and Mr. S. Jillson in- 
formed me some years since that it was quite frequent at 
Bolton, where it spends the summer and undoubtedly breeds. 
I am not aware that its nest has been found in the state 
prior to the present year, when it was discovered by Mr. C. 
J. Maynard, June 12th, near Newtonville. This gentleman 
says that for the last three years he has seen this Warbler 
in swampy thickets near Newton in June, and felt confident 
that it bred there. This year he observed a female so anx- 
iously chirping from a small elm that he felt sure she had a 
nest in the vicinity, and quietly watching her he soon saw 
her fly down into the weeds. Approaching the spot carefully 
he discovered her sitting on her nest. This he describes as 
situated on the ground, in a tract of coarse weeds and 
ferns near a swampy thicket, and but a few rods from a 
public highway. It was placed entirely above the surface of 
the ground, and the birds seemed to have made no special 
effort to conceal it. It was composed externally of dried 
oak leaves and the bark of the grape-vine, and rather 
roughly lined with fine grass and a few horse hairs. He says 
it is large for - size of the bird, and somewhat reminds one 


*See American Naturalist, Vol. iii, June, 1869, p. 122. 
