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General Notes. 



A Specimen of Helminthopila leucobronchialis in New Jersey. — A 

 fine male was shot on May u, 1883, at Maplewood, Essex Co., N. J., 

 feeding in tree-tops on the blossoms of theoaktree. This, I believe is 

 the first specimen for this State. 



Not being able to satisfactorily identify the bird I sent it to Mr. E. P. 

 Bicknell, whose remarks on the subject I give, as follows : "The specimen 

 of Helminthophila leucobronchialis from Maplewood, New Jersey, is similar 

 to an adult male taken by Dr. A. K. Fisher, at Sing Sing, N. Y. , August 

 29, 1S79, and recorded in B. N. O. C, IV, 4, 234. As I recall Dr. Fisher's 

 specimen, the present one differs chiefly in having the yellow breast-band 

 less pronounced, both in color and outline. The wing-bars are narrow, 

 conspicuously separated, and, as in Dr. Fisher's example, whiter than in 

 many individuals of H. pinus. The specimen shows one peculiarity 

 which I do not remember to have observed in others, or to have seen 

 recorded, namely, a distinct bleaching of the ashy-blue of the dorsal 

 surface on the rump and proximal tail-coverts. Carried a few steps farther 

 this tendency would have given us a Helminthophila with a white rump! 

 This bird is the first for New Jersey. Mr. Brewster alludes to a specimen 

 from Nyack, "New Jersey" (B. N. O. C, VI, 4, 2191). The specimen 

 referred to. however, was from Nyack, Rockland Co., New York, the error 

 in the record being obviously from some mishap in publishing. But 

 Nyack, N. Y.. is within a few miles of the New Jersey State line." — C B. 

 Richer, New York City. 



Capture of two more Specimens of Helminthophila leucobronchialis 

 at Sing Sing. New York. — On August 11. 1883. I killed two specimens of 

 the so-called White-throated Warbler {Helminthophila leucobronchialis). 

 The under parts of both specimens are much more deeply suffused with 

 yellow than is the case in any of my other three specimens: in fact, the 

 vellow on one is evenly distributed over the entire under surface, but is 

 not so deep as in Helminthophila pinus. — A. K. Fisher. M. D.. Sing 

 Sing. .Vet: 1 Tori-. 



Evidence Concerning the Interbreeding of Helminthophila chrysop- 

 tera and H. pinus. — On July 4, 1885, while collecting specimens in a piece 

 of woods underlaid by a scattering undergrowth, I came upon a female 

 Golden-winged Warbler busily engaged in collecting insects. As I stood 

 watching her she flew to a neighboring cedar tree and commenced to feed 

 a young bird. I immediately shot and killed the latter as the female flew 

 away. The noise of the discharge started another young bird from some 

 bushes nearby, and as it flew the female flew and alighted near it. Just as 

 I was on the point of firing they started, and I succeeded in wounding the 

 female only and had to follow and kill her with a second shot. On my 

 return to the place where I first shot at her. I could not find the young 

 one, nor did a careful search disclose it. In advancing for a nearer shot I 

 had a good opportunity of seeing the young bird : it closely resembled its 

 mother in appearance and had no yellow on the breast, whereas the one 



