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General Notes. [October 



in a hardwood thicket at the extremity of a large body of woods. This 

 spot, which has scarcely an area of two acres, borders on the open 

 country and on a constantly travelled public highway. The ground is 

 largely free from lesser vegetation, having been swept bare during high 

 water by the overflow from the stream. There is not anything in the im- 

 mediate surroundings, or in the general vicinage, to suggest the 'pine- 

 land gall' which figures so prominently in the descriptions of the haunts 

 of this species in the Low-Country. The inland character of the place of 

 capture, situate as it is on the water-shed between the Broad and Ca- 

 tawba Rivers, in the heart of the Piedmont Region, one hundred and 

 fifty miles from the coast, renders this find one of special interest. While 

 it establishes nothing definitely beyond the mere fact of the occurrence 

 of a single bird — perhaps accidental — during the time of migration, it 

 awakens the mind to the possibility of an Up-Country habitat, yet await- 

 ing discovery, where the true centre of abundance will finally be located. 

 — Leverett M. Loomis, Chester. S. C. 



Another Bachman's Warbler in Florida. — Mr. J. W. Atkins, of Key 

 West, Florida, writes me that on August 30 of this year, he collected a spec- 

 imen of Bachman's Warbler {Helininthophila baehmani ) in the outskirts 

 of the town of Key West. He found the bird, a female, he writes, "feeding 

 in the black mangrove trees that skirt the edge of a pond of an acre or two 

 in extent, and was the only one I could find. It measures 4I inches in 

 length; wing, 2}; tail, 2. Feet and legs brownish, soles of feet yellowish. 

 Bill blackish, light below at base. Forehead yellow, and lacks the band 

 of black given in Coues's description of the species. Throat yellow, then 

 a black area occupying part of the throat and breast, succeeded behind by 

 yellow, which in turn becomes whitish on the belly and vent. Sides of 

 neck faintly yellowish. Top of head and hind neck ashy. Rest of upper 

 parts olive, agreeing with Coues's description. Tail-spots very small and 

 on the inner edges of the feathers. I think it is an adult female." — W. E. D. 

 Scott, Tarpon Springs, Fla. 



Additional Captures of Helminthophila leucobronchialis. — The spec- 

 imens below recorded were taken at Englewood. N. J., in a densely thick 

 eted, low, wet woods. 



1. (Nowin Coll. Dr. A. K. Fisher, No. 2646, $, May 15, 18S6.) Rump 

 and interscapulars as in H. pinus ; wing-bars intermediate between H. 

 chrysoptcra and pinus. A yellow pectoral band and a slight suffusion of 

 same color on the underparts. 



2. (Coll. F. M. C, No. 903, ? ad., June 26, 1887.) Immediately after 

 the capture of this specimen I was attracted by the voices of young birds, 

 and a search revealed, almost directly overhead, four young being fed by 

 a typical male pinus. For between four and five hours this family was 

 closely watched, and the non-appearance of a female during that period 

 renders it possible that the missing parent was the captured bird. Three 

 of the young were taken, all typical of pinus. the fourth escaped me. 



