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tioning the fact to my wife, she told me she had also noticed one in the 

 forenoon, but knew not that it was of special interest. This was Feb. 14, 

 1884. The next day I examined over fifty individuals of Junco but never a 

 wing-bar was visible. Under Feb. 21, I find the following entry in my 

 diary: "At S.30 a. m. I shot in my yard a White-winged Snowbird. It is 

 in worn plumage, but appears to be a typical bird ; both wing-bars show 

 plainly, the tail has two feathers on each side pure white, and the third 

 one more than half white. It was in company with a second which ap- 

 peared to be in brighter plumage. This makes five specimens seen, two 

 bright and three dull ones. They were each time associated with a party of 

 Tree Sparrows that has stayed around my premises all winter, so that 

 there may have been but two individuals and the same ones seen several 

 times." On March 7 a single one was seen. This completes the record 

 for Caddo. 



Late in the winter a box of skins arrived from Wisconsin which I had 

 prepared the previous spring. On comparing my new Snowbird with 

 the old ones, I was not a little surprised to find among them its coun- 

 terpart. This second specimen bore a tag which showed its history 

 to be as follows. The morning of Jan. 14, 1883, '* was found alive in my 

 woodshed at Jefferson, Wis., in the southern part of the State. It was 

 kept alive three days, and when it died its skin was saved. Both speci- 

 mens are still in my possession. 



This species was originally described by Mr. Aiken in 1872, from speci- 

 mens taken in the mountains of Colorado, where the species is abundant. 

 Three years later it was taken at Ellis, in Western Kansas, by Dr. L. 

 Watson. It has been found nowhere else. The past winter Dr. Watson 

 again found the species in the same locality, so that it may be considered 

 a regular winter visitant to Western Kansas, but its occurrence in the 

 Indian Territory, and especially in Wisconsin, is probably fortuitous. 



THE NESTING HABITS OF THE CAPE MAY 

 WARBLER (DENDRCECA TIGRINA). 



BY MONTAGUE CHAMBERLAIN. 



My first acquaintance with. the Cape May Warbler in its home 

 was made during the summer of 1882, when our party secured 

 several specimens in the heavy woods back of Edmundston, 

 near the northern boundary of New Brunswick. Previous to 

 this I knew nothing of the occurrence of this species in this 

 Province except what I had learned from Mr. Boardman of its 



