Mass. {near Camhridge) . 



1887 



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Ma_ss,_(»ea r Ccicord).] fifj^ 



1887 ^ 



Birds of Bristol County, Mass. 

 P. W.Androe. 



Dendroioa striata (Forst.), Black-poll War- 1 

 bier. Migrant, tolorably common. 



O.&O. XII. Sept. 1887 pa41 



Auk, XliU, Ocv., iQoii, p . 4^ 2-^? • 



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Blackpoll Warbler Lingering in Mass.- 1 ha-d thought that the 



[ thTr h ^"""^ ^ known had come 



\ when I heard smgmg, and subsequently saw at close ranse . Rln I ! 



Warbler m Cambridge Common on June 25 of ^^.^J^f, 

 ! later than any record in Brewster's ' Birds n( th. r I f ^^^'^ 

 However on July 7 I observed on^si^ 1 S^^. 

 ] Mass., ar.d subsequently recorded him regularly.lhoujh witl \l™ ng 

 frequency durmg August, as he sang less and less -ind ■ , . T ,i 

 undiscoverable when not singing, i« spite of the faci-fhal he'a, pea mUo 

 keep to an area of not over twenty acres in the.center k the pomt ThouA 

 I watched his movements closely for considera^ Wiods I could never 

 discover that he approached any nest, had V mMe or young, nor did a 

 search of the small cedars, pitch pines, and bushes of the area reveal them 

 I must conclude therefore that he was a stray, probably straggling north 

 very late indeed and possibly stopped by the ocean lymg immediately 

 north for some twenty miles. I heard apd saw him for the last time on i 

 August 27, though he may well have remained there until the fall migra- I 

 tion.— Arthur C. Comey, Camhridge, Mass. ' ' 



