58 General Notes. 



(general fiatcd, 



Eibtland's Warbler again in Ohio. — I have been informed by Mr. 

 R.^K. Winslow and other ornithologists of Cleveland, 0.,that two specimens 

 of Dendraca kirtlandi were taken at Rockport, Cuyahoga County, O., 

 by William and John Hall, during the past season. One of these is a 

 female, the first of the sex taken. Both were captured within two miles 

 of the spot -where the original specimen was taken by Dr. Kirtland. A 

 third specimen is said to have been taken in that vicinity about the same 

 time, but I was unable to obtain any definite information concerning it. — 

 J. M. Wheatox, Columbus, 0. 



VlREO atricapillusin Texas. — The accpuaintance with this beautiful 

 little Vino has been so limited that any remarks or dates of additional 

 capture cannot fail to be of interest. We find, in Baird, Brewer, and 

 Ridgway's " North American Birds," that but three or four specimens of 

 this Yireo have been previously recorded. One specimen, " probably a 

 female," was obtained at Mazatlan, on the western coast of Mexico, in 

 April, by Colonel Grayson." It was " first met with by Dr. Woodhouse, 

 on the 2Cth May, 1851, in Western Texas. This was on the Rio San 

 Pedro, within ten miles of its source." Dr. Woodhouse obtained two 

 males and " Mr. John H. Clark, the naturalist of the Mexican Boundary 

 Commission, likewise found this species in Texas, and not far from the 

 same locality in which it was discovered by Dr. Woodhouse." Mr. Clark 

 shot a single specimen in June. 



Since the above citations I believe there has been no record made of 

 further captures. The following is an abstract from a letter received by 

 me from Mr. George II. Ragsdale, to whom I am indebted for information 

 regarding his recent experience with the Black-headed Yireo : — 



"On the 20th of April, 1878, while collecting some birds at Camp Verde, 

 in the northern part of Medina County, Texas, my fiiend, Mr. W. Norris, who 

 accompanied me, shot a male of this species, shooting the bird at random, not 

 knowing its rarity. On the 2d of May, 1878, I collected a female in Comanche 

 County, about one hundred and fifty miles northeasl of Camp Verde. The 

 specimen, like the former, was found in posl oak woods on upland. On the 

 3d of May, 1878, 1 shot a second male, while singing, in the northeastern part 

 of Earth County. The song resembled thatof Vireo belli, only weaker, l'.otli 

 specimens which I shot were exceedingly shy, darting into thick bushes at 

 sight. I am convinced as to the breeding of this species on the borders of tho 

 Red River in Cook County. In 1876 a Vireo's nesl which contained one egg 

 was shown me by a person who tie dared the bird had a black head. 1 watched 

 the nest for some days, but the parent did not. return, and the egg was lost 

 The locality in which the nesl was round was identical with that in which 1 had 

 collected the birds, and I have never found Hell's Vireo breeding in such a 

 locality." 



