Maine Notes. — Oporornis agilis ( Wils .) Baird. Connecticut 
Warbler. — Mr. Nathan Clifford Brown, in a paper read before the 
Portland Society of Natural History April 3, 1882, gives this bird for the 
first time a place in the Maine fauna. He met with it Aug. 30, 1878, on 
Cape Elizabeth. I would record a specimen which I took in August. 
!879, at Ebeme Lake. This makes the second record for this State. 
Bull. 17.0.0. 7 , July, 1882, p, /?<?. 
Connecticut Warbler — A Correction. — In the ‘Bulletin of the Nuttall 
Ornithological Club’ for July, 1882 (Vol. VII, p. 190), I recorded the cap- 
ture of a Connecticut Warbler at Ebeme Lake, Maine, in August, 1879, 
which made the second record for the species in the State. 
To make certain of its identity I sent the skin to Dr. T. M. Brewer, 
who wrote me (Oct. 26, 1879) that as well as he could make out the speci- 
men was the Connecticut Warbler, but that he would get some one more 
an fait in plumage than he was to confirm or reverse his opinion. 
Following this he returned the skin and wrote (Oct. 30): “I have 
shown the inclosed to Mr. Allen and have his confirmation of my own 
impressions. The agilis is rather an interesting specimen.” 
Lately the question of its correct identity was again raised, and to make 
assurance doubly sure I sent the skin to Mr. William Brewster for ex- 
amination, giving its history. Mr. Brewster wrote me (March 28, 1886) : 
“The case is of such importance, I have compared it carefully with large 
series of both Oporornis agilis and G. 'Philadelphia. There can not be 
the slightest doubt as to its identity. It is a perfectly typical Geothlypis 
Philadelphia in autumnal plumage.” From Mr. Brewster’s careful exam- 
ination he is undoubtedly correct, and 1 would correct the record already 
made.— Harry Merrill, Bangor. Iff-Ank, 3, July, 1880. ; y/J 
Additional Occurrences of the Connecticut Warbler in Maine. — On 
seeing Mr. Merrill’s note in the July number of ‘The Auk’ (Vol. Ill, p. 413) 
last summer, on the status of the Connecticut Warbler in Maine, I was 
reminded of a bird which I had taken in September, 1SS5, at Saco, which 
I had supposed to be of this species. At the time of reading the note I 
was away from Cambridge, and, being unwilling to send any communica- 
tion regarding my bird until I had examined it again, was obliged to 
wait until October. Before that time, however. I had the pleasure of 
taking two more specimens at Saco. The first was taken September S, 
in a maple swamp, not more than twenty yards from where the specimen 
of the previous year was secured. The other was shot September 13, 
in a dry blueberry heath, on a pine tree, where it seemed to be feeding. 
To make certain in regard to their identity I have just shown the three 
skins to Mr. Brewster, who pronounces them undoubted Oporornis agilis. 
— Joseph L. Goodale. Cambridge , Mass. 
Auk, 4, J»n. f 1887 . p . J J , . 
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