Birds Observed at Bennington, Vermont

night which brought the orioles and most of the resident warblers, including the Blue-winged Warbler's relative, ¾. chrysoptera.Mr. Faxon and I were especially interested in the presence of this warbler.In ' The Auk ' for October, 1907 (p.444), Mr. Faxon recorded a male Brewster's Warbler which had spent the preceding summer in Lexington, and in the Memoirs of Museum of Comp.Zool., 1910 (XL, pp.57-78), he gave a detailed account of two female Brewster's Warblers which, mated with V. chrysoptera, bred during the summer of 1910, in the same locality where the 1907 bird was found.Brewster's Warblers have returned to this locality each year since 1910.In plumage tbe offspring of all these birds have followed the laws of Mendelian heredity and the inference is that V. pinus has bred on some former occasion in the vicinity and that these Brewster's Warblers are a relic of cross breeding.However, with the exception of "A nesting of the Blue-winged Warbler in Massachusetts," by Horace W. Wright (Auk, XXVI, No. 4, October, 1909) in Sudbury, twenty miles to the south, there was, until now, no record of the occurrence of V. pinus for this immediate region.The appearance this spring of a pure Blue-winged Warbler within half a mile of the Brewster's breeding ground is a bit of corrobor•tive evidence that from time to time pure blood may be introduced into eastern Massachusetts.Mr. Faxon and I believe that the present bi•'d cannot have been • descendant of a local V. leucobronchialis, for the reason that, without exception, the Brewster's Warblers in Lexington sing the V. chrysoptera song.--W•soRM. TyLeR, Lexington, Mass.Birds Observed at Bennington, Vermont.--Thefollowing species have been noted by Mrs. Ross and myself during the past few years.Colymbus holbeellii.HOLR•L•,'S Gg•R•.--1904,Feb. 18, seven takcn alive on the snow--unable to fly.1910, Jan. 1, one taken alive.1912, Feb. 12, one taken alive.1913, Mar.14, one taken alive.A11e alle.Dov•K•.--1910,May 31, one taken alive but died the next day.It was mounted and is now in the State Museum at Montpclier.It was in summer plumage.Sterna hirundo.Co•Mo• T•RN.--1907,May 30, one seen.Aythya marila.AM•c•N Scour DUCK.--1911,Oct. 25, one shot.HareIda hyemalis.OLD SQ•SW.--1911,Nov. 13, one shot.Railus elegans.t(iN• R•L.--1910, one spent the month of May in a swamp in this town.Calidris arenaria.S•ND•ULI•.--1911, Sept. 25, one taken alive but injured; lived only a few days.Mounted and is in the State Museum.Limosa h•mastica.HUDSONIAN GoDW•T.--1911,Sept. 5, one taken alive with a broken wing.Aquila chrysa•tos.GOLDEN E•LE.--1911,Oct. 26, one shot-mounted and is in a private collection.

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