64 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 107 



GENERAL NOTES 



DENDROICA CERULEA IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA 

 IN SUMMER. 



The cerulean warbler does not appear to be common or gen- 

 erally distributed in the western North Carolina mountains dur- 

 ing the breeding season. There is, so far as the writer is aware, 

 only a single previous breeding record, that of Mr. Arthur T. 

 Wayne, who found several individuals near Morganton, North Car- 

 olina, on May 28, 1909 (Auk, XXVII, January, 1910, pp. 84-85). The 

 writer has in his possession a specimen of this species shot by 

 Mr. P. M. Wilson in the " Pink Beds," Pisgah Forest, Transyl- 

 vania County, North Carolina, on July 17, 1906. This bird is a 

 Juvenal female, and since it is in first autumn plumage, probably 

 came from a nest somewhere in that vicinity, and therefore forms 

 the second breeding record for the State. This example, as will 

 be noted, was collected three years before Mr. Wayne's observa- 

 tions above noted were recorded, but for various reasons has hith- 

 erto failed of published record. 



Harry C. Oberholser. 



ANOTHER CINNAMON TEAL IN NORTH DAKOTA. 



Authentic records of Qiierqucduhc cyanoptera for North Dakota 

 are still suflaciently few to make worth while the publication of 

 any additional specimens. Through the courtesy of Mr. J. D. Allen, 

 the writer was privileged, during a recent visit to the State, to 

 examine an adult example of this species then in Mr. Allen's pos- 

 session, which had been taken by him at Mandan, North Dakota, 

 October 10, 1902. 



Harry C. Oberholser. 



OTOCORIS ALPESTRIS HOYTI IN OHIO. 

 While the Hoyt Horned Lark {Octocoris alpestris Jwyti) is 

 known to occur in Ohio, there are aparently not over half a dozen 

 specimens actually recorded from the State. It may be worth 

 while, therefore, to place upon record an additional example which 

 recently came to light in the collection of the United States Na- 

 tional Museum, and which was originally No. 2164 in the private 

 collection of Dr. Edgar A. Mearns, but is now No. 235158, U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. It is an adult male, and was taken by Dr. Mearns at 

 Clrcleville, Ohio, on November 26, 1880. The length in the flesh 

 is given as 7.75 inches, and the extent as 14.10 inches. Other com- 



