Notes from Western New York. 
Maurice G .Blake, Hanover ,11. H. 
Auk, 24, Apr. ,1907, p. Z-'Z.jr, 
Geothlypis aqilis . — Mr. Antes had the good fortune to record a spring 
migrant of this species at Canandaigua in the early morning of May 29, 
1906. He followed up an unfamiliar warbler song to a dense but small 
thicket. After patient waiting he obtained several very near and con- 
vincing views of a male Connecticut Warbler as it sang. Careful searches 
in the afternoon of the same day and the next morning failed to reveal 
this warbler in the near vicinity. Early in the morning of May 31, Mr. 
Antes and I came upon a Connecticut Warbler in an old, overgrown gar- 
den about two-thirds of a mile west of the spot where Mr. Antes had 
observed his bird two days before. Presumably the two observations 
were of the same bird. While Mr. Antes returned for his gun, I had a 
half hour in which to study the bird carefully. Its loud song had first 
made us aware of its presence, and it proved a persistent singer. From 
a small apple tree in the rear of the garden it flew to a clump of willows 
standing by itself in an open pasture. I was able to come up to the clump, 
and, looking within, see the warbler but a few yards from me. The white 
eye ring was distinct and prominent, and the breast uniform bluish gray. 
When a pair of Song Sparrows drove it from the clump, it flew to a bushy 
fence border, and here I had even clearer views of it. Several times I 
saw it in the act of singing. When Mr. Antes returned it was again back 
in the thick clump. As it worked towards the edge, he shot. We spent 
three-quarters of an hour in fruitless search among the close-growing 
willows, and then gave it up. Though the record is unfortunately not 
complete, it is none the less positive. 
The Connecticut Warbler in Central Park, New York City — 1 
was fortunate enough to find an individual of the Connecticut Warbler 
( Oporornis agilis) in Central Park on May 16. The bird was a male in 
curious plumage, as there was not the usual amount of slate-gray on the 
breast. At first sight I thought it was a Nashville Warbler, but soon 
noticed it walking on the ground, with its tail up in the air, and then ob- 
tained a view of its breast. It was absurdly tame, and was within eight 
feet of me, when first observed. During the day I showed it to about ten 
bird students. Mr. W. deW. Miller, of the American Museum of Natural 
History, came over in the afternoon, and four of us leaned in a row on a 
fence, while the bird walked unconcernedly around catching flies, not more 
than 15 feet from us. We were able to make out every detail, including 
the elongated tail-coverts. Part of the time the bird was so close that I 
was unable to focus on it with my binoculars. The Warbler remained in 
the Park in the rhododendron bushes for six days, walking about fre- 
quently in the open. This species is apparently a very rare spring 
migrant along the Atlantic Coast. — Ludlow Gbiscom, New York City. 
