Durii.g tlie first week in June, W. H. Lucas, at West 

 Stratford, Conn., found the nest and four e};gs of the 

 Blue-winged Warbler ; leaving it for two days to see if 

 tlie set was complete, all tlie eggs Init one had disap- 

 peared. The egg measured .(19 x .48. White, with large 

 brown and lilac spots. 



O & ®. XIV. AQg-. 1889 p. 124 



Helminthophila pinus.— Th 



mon along the coast except at 

 15. and was common until the 

 another on the iSth, and a paii 

 the first was seen bj Mr. Flint 

 the i6th through the month, n 

 at Saybrook May 9, and was tc 

 Seymour, about twelve miles n 

 on May 9, and the species was 

 breed. No birds of this species 

 in the north-central part of the 

 13, but it is very rare there. 



IS species was found to be generally corn- 

 Bridgeport. It arrived at Stamford May 

 17th, one was seen at Bridgeport May 10, 

 r found breeding June 14. At New Haven 

 May 14, and the species was common from 

 lany remaining to breed. It was first seen 

 rably common until the first of June. At 

 ■thward of New Haven, the first was seen 

 common by the 14th, many remaining to 

 were observed at East Hartford, which is 

 State. One was taken at Portland, May 



A«k, Tt. April, 1889, p. /^^ . 



Gen oral I7otos. 



Noteq from Oonneoticnt. 



Four Lawrence's Warblers were withi 

 typical and one with the black obscured 

 as seen by Mr. C. K. Averill and myself 

 precisely like the Blue-winged Warbler; but 

 no gun. One fine fellow frequented the gi 

 piece of woodland until July at least, while c 

 stone's throw a beautiful Brewster's Warbler 



a radius of half a mile, three 

 id the crown dull yellow-olive, 

 As did all the others, it sang 

 jt it was not secured, as we had 

 ivth on one side of a small 

 the other side and within a 

 pent the greater part of his 



time. The latter, after patient watching, revealed his mate, a Blue- 

 winged Warbler, and a nest in course of construction. This was in the 

 edge of a pasture bordering a lane and grove. It was poorly concealed in 

 the dead grass at the base of a small shrub among scanty briars and the 

 beginning of a scrub growth, and was plainly visible from any point 

 several feet away. It was constructed as is usual with Helminthophila 

 pinus. When seen again, June 14, it contained four eggs, two of which 

 were Cowbirds,' which were removed. Those remaining brought forth a 

 pair of birds that, as they left the nest, could not be distinguished from 

 normal young of the female parent, as would be expected, whatever the 

 color of the male. JC, Jan , 189-3 p 39-00 



Gor;«iral Notes 



comes to us the first week in May, and is a reg- 

 , ular, but rare, summer resident. While here, it does not wander far from 

 I a swampy spot grown up with alders, a few maples and an occasional oak 

 ;and elm. A nest with four eggs, and one of Molothrus ater, was taken 

 May 3 1, 1887. 



-^uk X.April, 1803. d. 208. 



