Audubon's Warbler in Massachusetts. — While collecting m the 

 neighborhood of Cambridge, Mass., November 15, 1876, I 3va. fortunate 

 enough to obtain a fine specimen of Audubon's Warbler {Dendrceca audu- 

 lomV It was a male, and the yellow of the throat was very plainly 

 marked. Dr. Coues, in his " Birds of the Northwest," gives Laramie Peak 

 as about the eastern limit of this species. Its occurrence here must, ot 

 course, be regarded as entirely accidental. — A. M. Frazar. 



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Connecticut Notes. — On May 6, 1893, while collecting in a small patch 

 of woods on the outskirts of this city I shot an Audubon's Warbler from a 

 flock of Yellow-rumps. The bird is a male in very high plumage, the 

 yellow throat being conspicuous and the chest pure black. On May 8 I 

 again visited the woods, and after shooting several Yellow-rumps, I 

 procured another Audubon's, this time a female in dull plumage but with 

 the throat very plainly yellow. 



On the same day I procured an adult male Lawrence's Warbler, and on 

 Mav 22 an adult male Brewster's Warbler. 



May 31 I noticed a Lawrence's Warbler which I thought was breeding. 

 On June 5 I again noticed the bird and shot it, and, after hunting some 

 time,! finally flushed the female from her nest which, unfortunately,! 

 contained six young birds. I had a very good chance to examine her as 

 she was constantly within six or eight feet from me. The nest was in 

 all respects precisely like that of the Blue-winged Warbler. The young 

 birds were well feathered out, and several of them showed traces of black 

 on the lliroat. — A. H. Verrill, Nevj Haven, Conn. 



1 The really unfortunate part of the affair seems to have been not that the writer was 

 disappointed in his hopes of a set of eggs, but that he failed to capture and rear the 

 young and to secure the female, -that he threw away a rare opportunUy ofcashng 

 much light on the status of this doubtful species. — EDS. 



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Albinism and Ifelaniem in North 

 American Birde* Ruthvm D- fine, 



Mr. Charles E. Aiken of Colorado Springs has kindly presented me 

 with a specimen of Audubon's Warbler which he collected at Camp 

 Apache, Arizona, September 23, 1876, with albinism represented by 

 a distinct white ring around the neck ; the feathers being only 

 tipped with white. Under date of the 25th of July, 1878, Mr. 

 Charles A. Allen of Nicasio, Cal., writes me : ." I had a fine specimen 

 of Audubon's Warbler that I shot in the Sierras this spring. It 

 was a male, and had a white collar extending around the back of 

 the neck and on each side of the neck and shoulders, meeting in 

 a large white patch on each side ; otherwise the bird was in its 

 ordinary plumage." It is a little odd that two specimens of the 

 species should have been taken showing the freaks of albinism in 

 such a similar way. 



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