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Nighthawk, Chimney Swift, Ruby- throated Hummingbird, Kinghird, Crested Flycatcher, Phoebe, Least Flycatcher, Blue jay, American crow, Fish Crow, Bobo~ link, Cowbird, Red-winged Blackbird, Meadowlark, Orchard Oriole, Baltimore Oriole. Purple Grackle, Purple Finch, American Crossbill, Whiterwinged Cross- bill. American Goldﬁnch, Pine Siskin, Vesper Sparrow, Yellow~winged Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Field sparrow, Song Sparrow, Lincoln‘s Sparrow, Towhee. Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Indigo-bird, Scarlet Tanager, Cliﬁ Swallow, Barn Swal- low, Rough—winged Swallow, Cedar-bird, RerLeyer Vireo, Warbling Vireo, Yellow— Ihroated vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Black and White Warbler, Bluerwinged Warbler, Golden-winged Warbler, Nashville War»

bler, Parula Warbler, Cape May Warbler, ‘

Yellow Warbler, Black—throated Blue Warbler, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Black and Yellow Warbler, Chestnut-sided War— hler, Bay-breasted Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Black-throated Green Warbler, PrairieWarbler, Ovenbird, Northern Water- Thrush, Louisiana Water-Thrush, Mary- land Yellow-throat Warbler, Yellow- breasted Chat, Wilson‘s Warbler, Cana- dian Warbler, American Redstart, Carbird, Brown Thrasher, House Wren, White- breasted Nuthatch, Chickadee, Wood Thrush, Wilson’s Thrush, Gray-cheeked Thrush. Olive-backed Thrush, American Robin, Bluebird—GERALD H. THAYER, Manadnurlt, N. H.

Notes from in and near New York

HAIRY WooDPECKERr A male and a female spent this pastwinter in the Ramble, Central Park, and they or others have been seen in the north end woods. This is the ﬁrst time in the tour years I have been in New York that I have known this species to winter herer

PINE GROSBEAK. I was shown two, in gray plumage, in Central Park, November is. I903, and had excellent views before they new About three minutes later I found three (different ?) individuals in the same place, also grayt At Nordlion, Ber-

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gen County, N. 1., on January 9, I saw three Grosbeaks, two of them splendid adult males.

PINE SISKIN. October 11, 1903, I saw one Siskin feeding with several other spe- cies of its family, in Central Park, on the wall of tlle smaller reservoir.

FIELD SPARROW, In Bronx Park, at Pelham avenue, where it crosses the Bronx river, I saw one individual on January 17, feeding with Tree and Song Sparrows.

HOODED WARBLER. November 8, 1903, six weeks later than the date for departure given in Mr, Chapman’s ‘Handbook,‘1 saw an adult male at Grantwood, Bergen county, N. ],

WILSON'S WARELERa I saw one in Cen- tral Park, on October 3!, rgogr My dates for this and the next species were each a month later than those given in the ‘ Hand- book.’

LONG~BILLED MARSH WREN. I saw one of these Wrens at Moresmere, Bergen county, N. j., on November 8, 1903, and another on the 2I51.7CHARLES H. Rooms, Nelw rort Cily.

Pine Grosbeaks in New Jersey

Pine Grosbeaks were first seen here on Christmas Day, their ﬁrst appearance since February, 1397; I next saw them the ﬁrst Sunday of the new year, and since then have seen literally hundreds of them. It has been no unusual thing to see as many as four or ﬁve ﬂocks of from six to twenty individuals in the course of an afternoon’s walk. They have been seen in every part of town, and many people have been sure that a large ﬂock of Robins was wintering in their cedars. Since the middle of Feb- ruary I have not seen so many, generally a single one, or sometimes two, The propor- tion or red to gray ones has been one to ﬁve or six.

For several weeks after their arrival their food seemed to consist of the fruit of the mountain ash and honeysuckle berries, and while the berries lasted they were daily visitors to porches where honeysuckles are found. Lately they have been feeding on tree-buds, especially those of the English