Distribution of New England Birds. - 

 A Eeply to Dr. Brewer. H.A.Purdie. 



BuU. N.O.O. 2, Jan.. 1877. p. IH • 



SoTne Birds of Rare or Accidental Oc- 

 ourrenoe in New England. H.A.Purdi« 



4. Dendroeca caerulea. Blue Warbler. — A male was obtained by 

 Mr. Shores at Suffield, June 12,'1875. This species and PoUoptila ccerulea, 

 though previously recorded as occurring in New England, have not been 

 recently taken here. 



BuU. N.O.O. 2, Jan.. 1877, p. 21 



Dendroica cserulea at Seymour, Connecticut.— On May lo, i888, I shot 

 a fine adult female Cerulean Warbler from a flock of Parula Warblers 

 with which it seemed to be associating. The locality was dry and 

 somewhat elevated, with a growth of high hard-wood trees and but little 

 underbrush. With its companions, the bird kept chiefly among the top- 

 most branches where I watched it for twenty minutes until, leaving the 

 Parulas, it gradually descended into the lower branches to some fourteen 

 feet from the ground, Avhen I shot it. 



It measured : length 4.60, spread of wings 7.55 inches. Its stomach 

 contained insects only. The largest ova in the ovary were about the size 

 of No. 12 shot. — Edwin H. Eamks, Seymour, Cnnn. 



Auk, V, Oct.. 1888. p. ifSJ'SX 



