Occurrence of <I>Helminthophila leucobronchialis</I> in Virginia

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^General ^Notes. IJuly

ReturnofRobinsto the

same

Nesting-places.

—

Mr. CharlesS.

Mason,

of Farmington, Conn., tells

me

that for the last three years a

Robin

(Merula migratoria)^,with the back and wings mottled with white,has bred on ornear MissPorter's lawn inthat village,and that a

young

bird was seen lastfallpartially white.

At

the time ofwriting

(May

20, 1885) thebirds hadnotappeared thisseason.

Mr. Charles A. Hewins,of

West

Roxbury, Mass., writes that

"some

yearsagoaRobin builther nestfiveconsecutive yearsin a woodbinethat wastrainedup andover a piazza.

We knew

herbyawhite

mark

onone sideof her head."

—

Jno. H. Sage,Portland, Conn.

Abundance

of Parusatricapillusnear

Washington. —

^This^bird hasbeen, veryabundanthere during

March

and April, nineteen specimens having been taken,while

many

^others wereseen.

Owing

probablytothe severe winter theyweredriven south,returningaboutthemiddleofMarch.

The

firstspecimensweretakenon

March

15,andothers weretakenevery

week

untilApril 19,

when

sixwere shot and

many

others seen.

The

weather during April was fineand

warm,

and the birdsweresingingand appeared quite athome. But fewP. carolinensis were seen until the last

week

in April,

showing

that they too had been driven

much

further south.

—

William Palmer,

SmithsonianInstitution, Washington,D. C.

Occurrence of Helminthophilaleucobronchialis in Virginia.

—

^I^have^to

announce the capture of this Warbler by myselfon

May

15, near Fort Meyer, Arlington, Alexandria Co., Va. It was

moving

quickly in the underbrush in alow wet wood, andat the

moment when

shotwas hanging back downwards, in the

manner

of

H.

chrysoptera. I heardno note,asI shot it as soon as possible, thinking it was a Golden-winged Warbler, which^isveryrare here. This is, Ibelieve,the fourteenth specimen that hasbeentaken,but thefirstsouth of

New

York.

The

specimen,whichis amale, agrees closely with the description of the typeas givenin No.I,

Vol. I,of the ^'Bulletinof the Nuttall Ornithological Club,' exceptthat it

has

more

olivemixedwith theyellowonthecrown.

The

specimenis

now

in theNational

Museum

Collection, No. 104,684,andis the first one that it has received.

—

William Palmer,

Smithsonian Institution, Washing- ion,

D.

C.

Another

Example

of Helminthophila leucobronchialis from Connecti- cut.

—

^Mr.^Harry

^W.

^Flint has kindly presented

me

with aspecimenofthis Warbler which he killed at

New

Haven, Conn.,

May

19, 1885. Itisa male, and

shows

a slight suffusionof yellowunder each eye and on the chin,as well as a light bar of the

same

color across thebreast; rest of underparts white.

The wing

bars arevery

much

restricted,andthe white

istingedwithyellow, andthereisaspotof the

same

colorontheback.

—

Jno. H. Sage, Portland, Conn.