The Orange-crowned Warbler in Cambridge, Mass., in December. 



— On Sunday, December 13, 1914, at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I 

 noticed a small bird flitting to and fro in a vine which grows on my neighbor's 

 piazza raiUng about 30 yards from the room in which I was sitting. The 

 actions of this bird at once attracted my attention. While they somewhat 

 resembled a kinglet's, they were not so quick and restless, and were those 

 of a warbler. 



The bird was not shy and during the 10 minutes I observed it I got 

 within 4 or 5 feet of it, and had ample opportunity to observe it carefully 

 through field glasses. Its under parts were dull greenish yellow becoming 

 a Httle darker on the breast, there was a whitish eye-ring and a very faint 

 showing of duU greyish wing-bars. The head was about the same color 

 as the back and tail, a greenish ohve brown. It appeared to be feeding on 

 seeds and berries that grow on the vines. 



The bird was unquestionably an Orange-crowned Warbler, and its 

 occurrence in December seems worthy of notice. So far as I know, while 

 there have been a number of November records (W. Brewster's ' Birds of 

 the Cambridge Region ') and one for Jan. 1, 1875 (Dr. C. W. Townsend's 

 ' Bu-ds of Essex County ') this is the first December record for Massachu- 

 setts. — Henry M. Spelman, Jr., Cmnbridge, Mass. 



