Dendroica coronata Feeding upon Oranges. — While at Enterprise, 

 Florida, last February, I twice saw Yellow-rumped Warbler^ eating the 

 pulp of sweet oranges. In the first instance the orange was one tha° had 

 fallen from a cart into the street and had afterwards been crushud so that 

 the pulp was exposed. The little bird tugged at it with all its strength 

 and seemed to have much difficulty in separating pieces small enough to 

 swallow. Some of these were fully an inch long and as large around as a 

 lead pencil. In the second instance the orange had merely cracked open 

 by falling from the tree to the ground beneath. During the entire month 

 of February the orange groves in the vicinity of Enterprise were frequented 

 by larger numbers of these Warblers than I found in other places, and I 

 have little doubt that the fallen oranges formed the chief attraction. — 

 William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. Aulc, Tl. Joly, 1880, p. :iy9 



Dendroica coronata. YelZow-rumped Warbler. 



1 have seen Yellow-rumped Warblers eating oranges as men- 

 tioned by Mr. Brewster in 'The Auk' (July, 1SS9). When 

 observed in the act they were feeding on fallen fruit that had been 

 broken open, but, as they also frequented the trees, possibly they 

 extracted pulp through holes made by the Red-bellied Wood- 

 pecker. From January 12 to February S, 18SS, this species was 

 extremely abundant all over the region about Sanford. Hum- 

 mock, bay, pine land, and flat woods swarmed with them, and 

 they also frequented the town, and even entered houses. 



Orauae Oo. Fla. D.Mortimer. -^S^' Vll.Oet, 



to form Its staple diet this year, though it 

 I de^th of wniter manages to do sonie flyeatch! 

 O.& O. XII. July 1867 p./^i- 



' Yellow Rump Warbler, nearly al- 



ways a common winter resident, feeds U . r,. . 



Yellow rump Warbler. On the 15th 

 of May last, I winged a Yellow-rump 

 Warbler {Dendroeca coronuta L.) and, as 

 it was very slightly wounded, I put it in 

 a cage, in order to try whether it would 

 live in captivity. As soon as it got used 

 to the cage, it seemed quite contented, 

 hopping incessantly from perch to perch, 

 and uttering at the same time a harsh, 

 monotonous " tweet." I offered it every 

 kind of food, but the only things it would 

 eat were hard boiled eggs and cooked beef, 

 chopped up fine, of both of which, espe- 

 cially the yolk of the eggs, it was very 

 fond. It also ate a little canary seed, but 

 it did not seem to like it, and swallowed it , . 

 shell and all. It lived in this way — seem- 

 ingly in perfect health, and with its wing 

 healing fast — for two weeks, when one g 

 morning I observed it sitting on its perch 

 looking dull and stupid, and every now ca 

 and then giving a spasmodic shiver. I • 

 took it out of the cage aud held it near a ^< 

 fire for some minutes, when it seemed o 

 completely restored. That evening, how- 

 ever, I noticed it put its head under its O 

 wing much earlier than usual, and the next 

 morning I found it on the bottom of its 

 cage, dead. — W. L. Scott, Ottmm, Canada. 



Yellow Eump Warbler. — Shot, Jan. 12, 

 1883, a specimen of " J), coronata " in or- 

 chard. Thermometer at zero, ground cov- 

 ered with snow. On examination I found 

 the bird to be fat and healthy. Crop and 

 stomach contained berries from the Eed 

 Cedar. Have been a close observer of birds 

 for the last ten years and I think this is 

 the first record of its occurrence in Winter 

 in Northern Ohio.— _4. Hall, M Rochport. 



O.&O. vm.Apr.l883.p..^/ 



