An Earlier Occurrence of the Prothonotary Warbler in Massachusetts. 



—In the last issue of 'The Auk' my friend Mr. Brewster, c 



taking a Pi-otonotaria citre, 

 first for the State, and I ai 

 record his capture of two m 

 great pleasure of seeing aliv 

 Let me note a fourth specii 

 George Dwelley. He as 

 foliage overhanging a . 



in Concord, very properly considering it the 

 aware that he will in the October number 

 re in the same town, one of which I had tlie 

 as well as afterwards handling in the ilesh. 

 3n that I have seen in the possession of Mr. 

 res me that he shot the bird, a male, from the 

 :ek, it falling into the water. This was in 

 spring, several years ago, but not previous to 18S0, in the town of South 

 Abiiigton, Plymouth County.— H. A. Purdie, Boston, Mass. 



Auk. 3. Oct., 1886. p. >i^^- 



Another Specimen of the Prothonotary Warbler in Massachusetts. — 



Recently when examining the collection of birds made by Mr. E. O. Da- 

 mon at Northampton, Mass., I saw a beautiful Protonotaria citrea which 

 he told me he killed in that vicinity on high ground, in May, 1883, and 

 that two other specimens were shot' at the same time by a friend of his. 

 These examples, additional to those already recorded by Messrs. Brewster 

 and Purdie (Auk, July and Oct., 1886), would seem to indicate that the 

 species enters New England regularly.— Jno. H. Sage, Portland, Conn. 



Atlk, 4, April 1887. p. ■ 



