75

Concord, Mass
1916.
Aug. 30
to
Nov. 4

Cape May Warblers.

as many more. The only birds of other species seen with
them were a Red-eyed Vireo and an Oven-bird [Ovenbird]. Hence the
flock consisted almost solely of Cape May Warblers. Most of
these were females showing little or no yellow and evidently 
young of the year but there were at least two males, one a
handsome adult, the other immature. In the same neighborhood
but not equally near our house and for the most part in
second-growth woods of birch oak & pine, I afterwards noted 
a young [female] Cape May [Cape May Warbler] on September 9 [September 9, 1916], another on the 13th [September 13, 1916],
a young [male] on the 17th [September 17, 1916] an adult [male] on the 25th [September 25, 1916] and
two [males] one adult, the other immature, on October 3 [October 3, 1916].
  The appearance together at Concord of so many of
these Warblers on one occasion and the not infrequent
presence of others during a period covering almost an
entire month would be more surprising were it not that
within the past few years the beautiful birds have been