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Fz'reo Philadelphicus , Cass. On Sept. 7th, 1875, I shot a 
female of this beautiful little species in Cambridge, Mass. It 
was feeding in cbmpany with several individuals of Fireo oliea- 
ceus, in a low willow tree. 
Bull. N. O.O. I, April. 1876. p, /<? 
On September 18, 1879, 1 shot, at Magnolia, Mass., a Brotherly-love 
Yireo ( Vireo philadelphicus). This is the second instance of its capture 
in Massachusetts. — C. W. Townsend. 
Bull. N. 0.0. 6, Jan., 1880, p, S3. 
A Third Capture op the Philadelphia Vireo (Vireo philadel- 
phicus ) in Massachusetts. — In the collection of Mr. Charles B. Cory I 
have lately seen a Philadelphia Vireo which was taken in Brookline, Mass., 
by Mr. Arthur Smith. Upon asking Mr. Smith about it he told me that 
he shot it late in September, in second-growth oak woodland when it was 
quite alone. 
This makes the third Massachusetts record, and all these specimens have 
been taken in the same month — September. The species should be care- 
fully looked for in the spring, but it is probable that, as with the Connecticut 
Warbler and several other birds, the vernal migration is made bv a more 
westerly route. — William Brewster, Cambridge, Mass. 
Bull, N. 0.0. 6, Jan,, 1881, p, - 
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Vireo philadelphicus in Cambridge, Mass. — On the 27th of Septem- 
ber, 1894, a boy brought in a Philadelphia Vireo which he had just killed 
in the museum grounds. Looking through ‘The Auk,’ and the Bulletin 
of the Nuttall Ornithological Club, I find only three records for this bird 
in Massachusetts, viz.: Cambridge, Sept. 7, 1875 (B. N. O. C., I, 19), 
Magnolia, Sept. 18, 1879 {id., V, 53 ), and Brookline, Sept, (id., VI, 56). 
It seems likely that the vernal passage of this Vireo to its breeding places 
in northern New England is made to the westward of Massachusetts — 
perhaps up the Hudson River valley, where both the male and female 
• have been taken in May, at Troy, N. Y. ( B. N. O- C., V, 239). — Walter 
Faxon, Museum of Comparative Zoology , Cambridge, Mass. 
Auk XII. .Tan. 1896 p. 84 
