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I have since been informed by Dr. Brewer that the nest 
referred to by Mr. Peabody as above “was, without doubt, a 
Nashville Warbler’s. I do not think it occurs,” he adds, 
“nearer than the Hudson River.”* Prof. Verrill, however, 
in his list of the birds of Norway, Maine (p. 21), gives it as 
rare in the southern part of Maine. From its range being 
generally southern, its occurrence in New England can only 
be accidental. 
SMALL-HEADED FLYCATCHER. Wilsonia minuta Bon. This 
rather apocryphal species is given by Peabody as having been 
met with at Ipswich by Dr. Brewer, and in Berkshire County 
by Dr. Emmons (Rep. Orn. Mass. p. 297). Dr. Brewer 
writes me that in 1834 his cat caught a specimen of. this 
species in Roxbury, which he sent to Audubon, though as 
Dr. Brewer observes, he (Audubon) makes no mention of 
it. Dr. Brewer remarks: “This was the only one I ever 
knew or heard of. Ipswich I ignore.” Compare with this 
Dr. Coues’ remarks on this supposed species in his *List of 
the Birds of New England.” + 
LONG-BILLED WATER THRUSH. Seiurus Ladoviciamis Bon. 
The first and only specimen thus far known to have been 
found in Massachusetts I captured April 28th, the present 
year, on Mount Tom. There is another in the Museum of 
Comparative Zoology, taken by Irving Frost, at Norway, 
Maine, in May, 1865. These two I believe are all the speci- 
mens known from New England, its actual occurrence in the 
Eastern States being now for the first time reported. 
BLACKBURNIAN W. ARBLER. Dendræca Blackburniæ Baird. 
Mr. Bennett found the young of this species this year near 
Holyoke that were scarcely able to fly. This establishes its 
breeding i in Massachusetts. This fact I had already inferred, 
as in 1863 I shot it in Springfield, June 24th. Mr. J. G. 
Scott also shot it in Westfield, late in June, 1866. Some 

* In epist., May 8, 1869. 
t Proc. Nik Inst. Vol. v, p. 275. 
tSee concerning this species Dr. Coues List of New England Birds, 1. e. p. 271. 
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