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Hepburn's Rosy Finch in Maine

1937; Oxford University Press; Volume: 54; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/4078120

1938-4254

Alfred O. Gross,

Crime and Detective Fiction Studies

heard the note, August after August, and have wondered about it, for nearly thirty years.In pitch, it suggests the call of a migrating Ovenbird, but it is too long-drawnout; it suggests the chip of a Northern Water-Thrush in its sharp abruptness, but again it is too long.I have thought of the bird which gives this note as one of the earliest migrants, passing invisibly by us in this unregarded time of the year.On August 11, 1936, in the Boston Public Garden, I heard the note from a little flock of birds in the branches over my head.Instead of moving off, the birds came downward through the branches into full view,--four Eastern Yellow Warblers (Dendroica aestiva aestiva).They lingered in the tree for a few minutes, sometimes changing their wild note to the familiar blurred chip of our common Summer Yellowbird.Two days later, while crossing Massachusetts Bay on a crowded tourist steamer, I heard the wild note again.We were opposite Marshfield, about three miles, I should say, from the shore, which was faintly visible in haze.A Yellow Warbler was flitting beside the boat, travelling southeast with it, keeping abreast of us for five minutes or so.These five individuals probably represented an extensive flight of Yellow Warblers pushing southward over Massachusetts.I wished them bon voyage, for they had taught me something I had wanted to know for a long time.--W•soRM. TYLEi•, Boston, Mass.l•lax•t Red-wing in l•lew •rork.--In the course of identifying the Red-winged Blackbirds in the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, I noticed two adult male Agelaius phoeniceus arctolegus from Cayuga County, New York, collected by Frank S. Wright on April 4, 1925.They have the following measurements: wing, 127, 128 min.;culmen, 23, 25.This race is apparently an addition to the birds of New York, although its presence is not unexpected, since there are records from as far east as Connecticut.