344 General Notes. pus 
Sycamore Warbler, but as the amount of yellow is variable and the geo- 
graphical probability is in favor of the Yellow-throated Warbler I leave the 
subspecific identification open. This is in all probability the same bird 
seen by Mr. Fleisher (Bird-Lore, 1917, p. 150) on the day previous and 
identified as the eastern subspecies. Later in the day I again saw the 
bird, in company with Mr. Preston R. Bassett. It was not singing on 
this occasion but was still so tame and deliberate in its movements that it 
was easily studied. Since then on subsequent visits to the same locality 
I have been unable to find any trace of the bird— Ratpa M. Harrineton, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Canada Warbler (Wilsonia canadensis) Nesting in Southern Con- 
necticut.— On June 3, 1917, I was rewarded by finding a nest of this 
species at Hadlyme, New London County, Connecticut. 
The female was flushed from its nest nearly under my feet. 
The nest was near a large stream of water, not more than thirty feet 
away and in one of the most impenetrable places thickly covered with 
laurel bushes. 
The nest was at the foot of a laurel bush, sunken level with the surface 
and composed of dry leaves, bark strips and lined with fine rootlets and 
grasses, etc. The ground was well carpeted with dry leaves. 
The male could be heard singing most any time during the day on the 
wooded hillsides. While its mate was nesting in the low ravine below, some 
distance away. ‘The male was never seen near the nest. 
These birds have apparently nested in this vicinity for at least three 
summers arriving about May 5 and not leaving until September when 
most of our summer resident warblers have left.— ArtHur W. Brockway, 
Hadlyme, Conn. 
The Hudsonian Chickadee (Penthestes hudsonicus, subsp.?) in Ly- 
coming County, Pa.—On March 18, 1917, one of these birds was 
seen feeding with a single Black-capped Chickadee in some underbrush 
at the side of a road in a gap through the mountains, some fifteen 
miles east of Lock Haven, Pa. It happened that I was sitting on a log 
by the roadside when I noticed a small bird in a thicket near me and as I 
gazed at it, it hopped into plain view and showed itself to be a Hudsonian 
Chickadee. What first caught my eye was the splash of umber on its 
sides and the next instant the brownish gray head it turned toward me as 
it peered about for insects made me realize that there could be no doubt 
as to what it was. For fully half an hour I followed it about as it fed on 
or near the ground and I was interested to see how wren-like its actions 
were as it crept about logs and piles of brush. To my mind, it showed 
none of the nervous activity that I have always associated with our 
common Chickadee for it seemed rather deliberate in its actions. For the 
most part it was silent although it occasionally gave a feeble chirp and 
twice uttered a nasal “ chick-a-dee-dee-dee”’ that was quite distinct from 
