Cambridge, Mass.
1910
Nov. 21
[November 21, 1910]

  Clear and cool with light westerly winds. Ther. [Thermometer] fell
to 25 [degrees] Fahr. [Fahrenheit] last night.

Orange-crowned Warbler in the Garden

  Yesterday forenoon I saw in our Garden what I
took to be an Orange-crowned Warbler getting, however,
only a brief glympse at it from the windows of the Museum
as it was flitting about in the suckle pear tree. What was
doubtless the same bird appeared again to-day, (about 2.30
P.M.) in the pear tree just as I came out of the house
on my way to the Museum. I followed it about for ten
or fifteen minutes. Although restless and also apparently 
rather shy I had it repeatedly in the field of my opera
glass in leafless trees and clear sunlight at distances
of twenty to twenty five yards, making absolutely sure
that it was H. celata [Helminthophila celata] and a 
typical specimen, very dark in general coloring and
almost as greenish and far from yellow on the under