General Notes. 1 1 9 
Mr. Wm. Brewster in 1872 found this bird in the same vicinity, but in 
a locality about five miles farther inland. 
These two records extend the northern range of the Short-billed Marsh 
Wren, and give it a place among the birds of New Hampshire. — Henry 
M. Spelman, Cambridge , Mass , 
Early Arrival of the Yellow-rump in Southern Maine. — This 
morning — March 21, 1882 — I found a solitary Yellow-rumped Warbler 
(. Dendrceca coronata') flitting about in a struggling growth of spruces, on 
Cape Elizabeth. His arrival is unprecedentedly early for this vicinity. 
The Yellow-rumps usually reach Portland in the last week of April, 
sometimes not until after May 1, and up to to-day I have never seen one 
before April 21, which was the date of their appearance in 1879. My 
little friend of this morning was probably only an accidental and tem- 
porary visitor. Snow still lies from two to three feet deep in the woods, 
and much blustering, wintry weather must be expected, before the earliest 
Warblers come to us in earnest. — Nathan Clifford Brown, Portland, 
Maine. 
Late Stay (probable Wintering) of Dendrceca pinus in Massa- 
chusetts. — A few individuals of the Pine-creeping Warbler remained so 
late with us the last season, that their courage deserves a record. I found 
four of them on December 5, 1881, in companj 7 with Chickadees, in a rocky 
run thickly set with maples and alders. There were no pines, but a small 
bunch of them not far away. I shot one, according to rule, to make sure 
of the species. Being desirous of ascertaining if they proposed to, spend the 
winter in that cheerful company, on January 1, 1882, I sent a young friend, 
who is well posted and a good observer, to the locality, and he reported 
seeing two of the Warblers so near at hand, perhaps twenty feet, as to 
make the identification positive. I intended to look for them again 
in February, but was unable to do so. — F. C. Browne, Fra 7 ningham , 
Mass. 
The Hooded Warbler in Western New York. — From various 
points in the dense forest, on the balmy days of May, comes the common 
and familiar song of the Hooded Warbler, — che-reek, che-reek , che-reek, 
chi-di-ee, the first three notes with a loud bell-like ring, and the rest in 
very much accelerated time, and with the falling inflection. Arriving 
early in May, this is one of our common summer residents throughout 
the dense upland forests, occupying the lower story of the woodland home, 
while the Ccerulean Warbler occupies the upper. Here let me say that 
__ in addition to its alarm note, a sharp whistling or metallic chip which is 
very clearly characterized, the Hooded Warbler has two distinct songs, 
as different as if coming from different species. Never shall I forget how 
I was once puzzled by this trick. I was strolling in a thick forest, near 
the corner of a slashing, in an evening twilight in June, when I was sur- 
prised by a strange whistling melody, — ivhee-reeh, whee-ree-eeh — with 
