A Late Fall Record for the Cape May Warbler {Dendroica tigrina) 

 in Eastern Massachusetts. — Toward dusk of Oct. 9, 1902, at tbe time 

 when smaller birds are activelj moving about, I noticed a few restless 

 warblers in a Norway maple near my home in Ponkapog, Mass. It was 

 impossible for me to determine the species, as they remained near the top 

 of the tree, but one bird was shot, and proved an immature female Cape 

 May Warbler. I am not positive as to the identity of the other birds in 

 this group, but one other bird which I saw was not Dendroica tigrina. — 

 Fred. B. McKechnie, Boston, Mass. Attk, XX, Apr., i908, p.^/S' 



The Cape May Warbler in Eastern Massachusetts. — In view of the 

 extreme rarity of the Cape May Warbler ( Dendroica tigrina) in eastern 

 Massachusetts, their occurrence in unusual numbers during the past 

 autumn in Lexington, Mass., seems worthy of note. 



Between Sept. 9 and 14, 1914, I met nine Cape Mays in four widely 

 separated parts of the town, — three on the 9th, five on the 13th, and one 

 on the 14th. Three of the birds were about my house in the town centre, — 

 two in a maple, and one in a mountain ash tree. Three other birds fre- 

 quented a red cedar pasture where I watched them for an hour. They kept ^ 

 close together, generaUy in the same tree, and passed repeatedly over a 

 beat which included two or three acres. We met another individual on 

 the border of a piece of woodland, and another in an isolated dead oak tree. 



The birds showed a remarkable range of plumage; some, old males 

 evidently, were almost as brilfiantly marked with yellow and orange as in 

 spring, others, buds of the year no doubt, were pale grey, streaked above 

 and below with brown, and lacked all yellow except on the rump. The 

 Cape Mays accompanied a heavy flight of migrants, composed chiefly of 

 Bay-breasted and Magnolia Warblers. 



Mr. William Brewster kindly sends me a record of three more Cape May 

 Warblers which he saw in the nearby town of Concord, Mass. His dates 

 extend materially the limits of the flight. 



" August 31, 9 in red cedar in berry pasture. Very tame. | 



" September 12, 9 in oaks and larches. Very tame. 



" September 30, 9 spent several minutes in bush directly in front of our 

 dining room window through which I viewed her at a distance of not over 

 five feet. She was accompanied by three Black-poUs." i 



Mr. Walter Faxon, who saw two of the Lexington birds, had previously 

 met the Cape May Warbler but three times in this vicinity during twenty- 

 eight years of constant observation. 



Mr. William Brewster (Birds of the Cambridge Region 1906, pp. 329, 

 331) summarizing all the instances which his notes supply of the bird's 

 occurrence in the Cambridge Region, says, — " It will be noticed . . .that 

 during twenty-four — or two-thirds — of the total thirty-six years which 

 the records cover, the beautiful bird was not noted at aU, and that during 

 eleven out of twelve years where it was observed only a single individual 

 was seen each season. These facts appear to me to warrant the conclusion 

 that the species is really one of the very rarest of the Warblers which visit 

 us with any degree of regularity." 



In his summary, which includes the records of many observers, he men- 

 tions but a single occurrence in this region in autumn. 



From the evidence of Mr. Faxon's and Mr. Brewster's experience the 

 flight of Cape May Warblers during the past autumn must be considered 

 unprecedented. — Winsok M. Tyler, M. D., Lexington, Mass. 



Unusual Late Autumn and Winter Records for Eastern Massa- 

 chusetts.- On the 15th of November, 1916, Dr. W. M. Tyler and I dis- 

 covered a Cape May Warbler ( Dendroica ligrina) m the town of Belmont 

 Mass and we found it again in the same place on the 19th and 25th of 

 the same month. In this region, on the 9th of December, 1916 we saw a 

 Palm Warbler {Dendroica palmarum pahnarum). Mr. H. W. Wright 

 had seen one of these birds (probably the same individual) in this neighbor- 

 hood on the 9th of the previous month. On the 25th of February, 1917, 

 Mr. Charles W. Jenks showed me a Fox Sparrow {Passerella ihaca ihaca) 

 wintering in Bedford, Mass., where it had been under observation smce 

 the 6th of January.— Walter Faxon, Lexington, Mass. 



