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interest attaches to the presence of the bird in Indiana. At the time of 

 publication of their " History of North American Birds " in 1874, Baird, 

 Brewer and Ridgway gave the locality as the eastern provinces of the 

 T'nited States and the Bahamas. " It must be considered " they state "as 

 one of the rarest of American birds. Kirtland's Warbler is so far 

 known by only a few rare specimens as a bird of North America and its 

 biography is utterly unknown." Three specimens are then recorded as 

 taken, two from Cleveland, ()., and one at sea between the islands of 

 Abasco and Cuba. 



Dr. Elliott Coues in his "Key to the Birds of North America" pub- 

 lished in '84 gives the locality as " Eastern United States." Of its occur- 

 rence he states that it is " the rarest of the Warblers ; only about a dozen 

 specimens known thus far." 



Its habitat is given as " Cuba " by Ridgway in his " Manual of the Birds 

 of North America " published in 1887. 



Because of its occurrence in the adjoining states, Ohio and Michigan, 

 Mr. A. W. Butler in his " Catalogue of the Birds of Indiana" places Kirt- 

 land's Warbler in his hypothetical list. 



There is no record, so far as I can learn, of its occurrence in Indiana 

 other than the present one. The bird is known to me only by a single 

 specimen that was taken May 4th, '93 and handed to me the following 

 summer for identification. It proved to be the rare D. kirtlandi. The skin 

 is now in the collection of Mr. W. O. Wallace, Wabash, Ind., who took 

 the bird near his home. Concerning it habits, he says: " I took it in a 

 thicket. It was by itself, there being no other birds in the thicket. It 

 seemed to be an active fly catcher, not having the motions of the other 

 Dendroica, being less active. It would dart off after an insect and then re- 

 turn to the same perch." 



The geographic and hypsometric distribution of North American vi- 

 viPARiD.E. By R. Ellsworth Call. 



[Abstract.] 

 There are four genera of this family in American waters and these ex- 

 hibit a varying number of species. The paper recogni/!;es Campeloma, Vi- 

 vipara, Lioplax and Tulotoma. There is given the general range of each 

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