<I>Euetheia canora</I> from Sombrero Key, Florida. A bird new to the United States

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^General^No/cs. ^[July

firstduring thewinter there was onlyasmall flockof C. ornafus tobe seen with probablyafewof/?.maccoxvnii scattered

among

them, buton

March

14

C

^ornafuswasscatteredalloverthe counti-ywestofSt.Johns, and where I killed the eleven specimens ofR. maccowiii'i therewas a flockofabout1000 C. ornatus. There were about500 of7?.marcoxvniiin theflockout ofwhich I got specimens andthetwo speciesseemed then tobe separate.

The

nature of thecountrywhereIfound bothspecieswas verybarren, therewas onlya little shortwhite

gramma

grassand afew weeds.

Two

of thespecimensofi?.maccowniil found on skinning had peculiarparasitical

worms

coiledupⁱⁿthe lowerouter cornerof theeye space; one hadfiveand the othertwo of theseworms.

They

were about .75ofaninchlong and about a thick as a stoutpiece ofsewingcotton, andof a brightyellowcolor. In both speciesof birds the malespre- dominated, thus of thirteen R. 7naccoiv>nl but one was a female.

Of

eight C.ornafusbutonewasa female. Thisis thefirsttimeIhaveseen either speciesin this district,andasDr.

Coues

in his

Key

toNorth Ameri- canBirds,andalsotheA.O. U.

Code

and

Check

listmention bothbirds as rarewestof the Rockies,Isend thisnoticeto'TheAuk.'

—

^JohnSwin- burne,St. Johns,

Apache

Co.,Arizona.

Euetheia canorafrom Sombrero Key, Florida.

— A

Bird

new

to the UnitedStates.

—

Mr.M.E.Spencer,keeperof thelight atSombrero Key,

Fhi.,has just sent

me

apackageof birdswhichkilledthemselvesagainsthis lightduringthe past spring migration.

Among

them wasapairof short olivegreen wings whichIwasunable to identify.

On

submitting

them

toMr.Ridgway, heat once pronounced

them

to belong toaspecies of Euetheia,and comparison withspecimens in the collection of theU.S.

National

Museum showed

the species tobe E. canora, theMelodious Grassquit, hitherto

known

onlyfrom Cuba.

The

birdwas found dead on thelowerplatform of the light-toweron the

morning

of April17, 188S.

The

windwaseast,moderate; skycloudy.

Another

West

Indian bird is thus addedto the list of those

known

to occuronthe islandsandcoastofsouthernFlorida.

—

C.

Hart Merriam,

Washington,D.C.

An Abnormal

ScarletTanager.

— A

remarkable albinofemale Scarlet Tanager was procuredat

Germantown, May

8,18S8,andis

now

in

my

collection.

The

wings and tail are

composed

ofpure whiteand ordinary blackish feathersinaboutequalproportions,while the wing-coverts consist of white, oliveand canary-yellowfeathers. All therestof the plumage aboveand belowisbrightcanaryyellow,withoneortwoolivaceousfeath- ers inthemiddleof the back.

The

legsandbillareverylightpink.

The

bird wasin

company

with several normal birds of thesame species.

—

Witmer

Stone,Germantown, Pa.

ProthonotaryWarbler inOntario.

—

WhilecollectingWarblers near Hamilton onthe

morning

of the23d of

May,

1S8S,I

met

agroupw^hich