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On the 25th of December, 1895, I also noted a male Chewink ( Pip ilo 
erythrophthalmus) in company with a flock of White-throats, mentioned 
above. lie flew from a thicket and perched for a moment in the top of a 
pear tree, called shewink several times and disappeared. This is the first 
record I believe of Pip ilo erythrophthalmus in Massachusetts during the 
winter. One was recorded at Portland, Connecticut, in January. Since 
writing the above I have learned from Mr. Brewster that a female Chewink 
was sent to him which was shot on January 2, in Bedford, Mass., some ten 
miles to the northwest of here. — Reginald IIeber Howe, Jr., 
nvood , Mass. 
Auk, XIII, July, 1896, P p.z6o-/. 
The Wintering of the Towhee at Longwood, Massachusetts. — I am 
glad to be able to report the following information in regard to the 
Towhee {Pipilo erythrophthalmus') noted December 25, 1895, at Longwood 
(see Auk, Vol. XIII, p. 178). 
Mr. Henry Vose Greenough, who saw the Towhee with me on Christ- 
mas Day, reported to me having seen on March 23, 1896, a male Towhee 
about a brush pile, some one hundred and fifty yards from the spot where 
we had noted the one in December. On March 24 I went with him to this 
place and in a neighboring hemlock hedge we found Pipilo. 
The brush pile is on the edge of an estate, only a few hundred feet from 
a stable, pig-sty and hen yard, where food and protection from the win- 
ter weather were easily accessible. When we started the Towhee on the 
24th he flew straight for the hen yard and then being pursued, to another 
hemlock hedge leading us in a circuit back to the brush pile. 
I believe there can be little doubt that this is our Christmas Towhee, 
which had wintered here, for the following reasons, viz. : Protection and 
food supply at hand; a male bird, as was the former one; in practically 
the same locality, and because it is exceedingly unlikely that a single bird 
would migrate northward fully a month in advance of its fellows. 
We have not noted this bird during January and February, though we 
both have covered the neighboring ground almost daily, because the place 
is just on the edge of this little patch of woodland and the Towhee evi- 
dently never wandered far from his brush pile and the farm yard. 
Since the 23d and 24th of March we have noted the Towhee on the fol- 
lowing dates, — March 25, 28, April 2, 4, 7, 9 (singing), 10, 12, 13 and 16, 
when he disappeared. 
The occurrence of this Towhee here makes a valid record of the win- 
tering of this species in Massachusetts, and the female that was taken at 
Bedford, Mass., on January 2, 1896, and the specimen taken at Portland, 
Conn., would seem to show that this bird can stand the rigors of a New 
England winter, and that we may look for further records of the winter- 
ing of this species in the future. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Long- 
- wood , Mass. 
