1916 
August 50- November 4 
Cape May 
Warblers 
oci 
The Cape May Yifarbler used to be considered — no 
doubt rightly — a rare and irregular visitor to eastern 
Massachusetts. YiTithin the past few ye ars it ha,s been 
commonly 
reported oftener and more regularly but never heretofore 
in anything like the numbers virhich appeared about our 
Concord Farm this autumn. It wan first noted there on 
September 4 when tree young birds (l male, two females) 
were seen feeding together in gray birches and white pines 
in Birch Field, in company with Warblers of several other 
species. On the 6th not less than ten or a dozen Cape May 
Warblers spent the entire day (a dark, cloudy and mostly 
rainy one) in trees or shrubbery near our house, ranging 
hither and thither through the ^ple orchard, drifting to 
and fro along the old farm lane and lingering for upv;ards 
of an hour in thickets bordering on the lawn, across which 
Henshaw and I viewed them through our opera glasses and 
a plate glass window of the dining room — within which 
we were then sitting. 
Nevertheless it proved impracticable to count them 
accurately at this or any other time for not all were ever 
in sight at once, although as many as five or six some¬ 
times showed themselves there, perhaps on the same tree top 
or even on the same branch, while several others might 
simultaneously be less plainly seen, or merely heard 
chirping, anid dense foliage not far off. Some were almost 
