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Late Migrants and Stragglers in Eastern Massachusetts. — Many 
birds stayed unusually late in Eastern Massachusetts this autumn, owing 
very likely to the mild weather which we enjoyed during October and 
most of November. Bluebirds, Chipping Sparrows and Field Sparrows, 
which generally disappear in the first week of November, were seen as 
late as the 13th of that month. The Blackbirds also prolonged their stay 
longer than usual ; I saw a flock of at least thirty Cowbirds in Belmont 
associated, up to Nov. 13, with over two hundred Red-wings and some 
Rusty Grackles. The last Cowbird was seen on Nov. 21 ; on Nov. 13, I 
saw three Bronzed Grackles. On Nov. 1 Mr. Faxon and I saw a Lincoln’s 
Finch, and on Nov. 5 I saw an immature White-crowned Sparrow. The 
height of the migration of both of these birds is about Oct. 1, and the 
latest dates hitherto noted for either are from a week to ten days earlier 
than those above recorded. On Nov. 3, I saw a Black-throated Green 
Warbler in Cambridge. 
There have been also three interesting stragglers in this vicinity during 
November. On the 2d of November I found a female Wilson’s Blackcap 
in Belmont; the bird stayed in the same locality till Nov. 20, and uttered 
when startled a curious wren-like kek, kek, which I have never before 
heard. Believing that the bird would eventually starve orfreeze to death, 
I asked a friend on the 20th to shoot it. 
On Nov. 5th I saw a European Goldfinch ( Carduelis ) in Arlington. 
The bird behaved like any wild bird. On Oct. 26, and again on Nov. 17, 
I saw in Belmont a Mockingbird. I placed food near the spot where I 
saw the bird, but have not since seen it. — Ralph Hoffmann - , Belmont , 
Auk, XVI, April, 1899, p. / 
Late Records for Eastern Massachusetts. — Mr. Louis A. Shaw of 
Chestnut Hill, Mass., informs me that he shot on the 20th of November, 
1902, an adult male Wilson’s Warbler ( Wilsonia pusilla ) ■ which he had 
first noted on the previous day. This is the second record of the capture 
of this warbler in late autumn in Massachusetts (Hoffmann, Auk, 1900, 
p. 196). Mr. Shaw also reports seeing Fox Sparrows ( Passerella iliaca) 
on December 4, 1902, and a Ruby-crowned Kinglet (Regulus calendula ) 
on November 16, 1902. — Reginald IIeber Howe, Jr., Concord , Mass. 
AtJfe, XX, Apr.. 1903, P- » • 
Wilson’s Warbler ( Wilsonia pusilla pusilla) in Massachusetts in 
December.— On December 3, sunny, light northwest wind, mercury about 
forty, 1 discovered a male Wilson’s Warbler in the Arnold Arboretum 
Boston. The bird was in a berry-bearing bush, barberry I think, but, did 
not seem to be feeding on the berries but about the branches and twigs. 
He was in full color, very farfflant - of course seeming more so in the gray 
world of December, and appeared to be 111 the best of health and spn its. 
In the same bush was a White-throated Sparrow and across the drive, the 
Mockingbird which has lived there for some years. While I was watching 
the warbler I was joined by two other parties of bird-students who offered 
to bear witness, as we ali had an excellent view of the bird. — Mas. George 
H. Mellen, Newton Highlands, Mass. 
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