Early Appearance of Empidonax minimus at Portland, Maine. — The 
spring of the year 1888 was a bad season for early arrivals at Portland, 
most of the earlier birds being very much delayed. Yet some did come 
early, and I think the most remarkable example was the Least Flycatcher 
{Empidonax minimus). Previously its earliest recorded arrival was 
5 (N. C. Brown, Proc. Port. Soc. Nat. Hist., 1882, p. 12), but on 
the morning of May 2, 1888, a chilly day with the thermometer only 36° 
Fahrenheit, and snow falling steadily, I saw one in a large orchard inside 
the city limits.— John C. Brown, Portland , Maine. 
Auk, VI. Jajct., 1889. p. 7 A 
