Note 196 — Chapter XIV · A MEETING OF RIVALS, AND A SKETCH OF ANOTHER PIONEER

Nevertheless so careful and discerning a naturalist as Thomas Nuttall confidently asserted that his friend, Mr. M. C. Pickering, had "obtained a specimen several years ago near Salem (Massachusetts)"; see A Manual of the Ornithology of the United States and Canada (Cambridge, 1832). Dr. Elliott Coues at one time thought that it might have been the Pine-creeping Warbler, and Professor Baird identified it as the female or young of the Hooded Warbler.