1SS7.] General Notes. 3_JO 



Taking into consideration the fact that the female is in worn breeding 

 plumage, the abdomen being denuded of feathers, it may be said to agree 

 with the type of leucobronchialis. Why not consider these typical birds as 

 the ultimate result of a union between pinus and chrysoptera, achieved by 

 series of unions between the original hybrids with themselves or either of 

 the parent species, in which both black and yellow are finally eliminated? 



If this he true the intermediate specimens should outnumber the typical 

 ones, and we have recorded, therefore, twenty-one birds approaching pinus 

 and chrysoptera more or less closely and but eight agreeing with leuco- 

 bronchialis as originally described. 



3. (Coll. F. M. C, No. 932, J im., July 31, 1SS7.) Dorsal surface and 

 wing-bars as in pinus, with an extremely faint grayish cervical collar. 

 Breast yellow, a flush of the same appearing on the white of the throat and 

 abdomen. Taken within less than one hundred feet of the place where 

 No. 903 was secured. The migration of pinus ban not yet commenced, and 

 this bird, which was undoubtedly born in the vicinity, would answer ad. 

 mirably as the missing fourth bird of the brood before mentioned. — Frank 

 M. CHAPMAN, American Museum Natural History, New York City. 



Helminthophila leucobronchialis in New Jersey. — May 15, 1SS7, a fine 

 male specimen of this bird was shot near this place. It differs from the 

 type in having a spot of lemon yellow on the breast and being washed 

 lightly with the same color on abdomen and back. — E. Cakleton Thur- 

 ber, Morristoivn, N. J. 



The Canadian Warbler breeding in Pike County, Pa. — On June 9, 

 18S7, ' n the mountains of Pike County, Pa., I was fortunate enough to find 

 a nest of the Canadian Warbler (Sylru/uia canadensis), containing four 

 young birds and one unhatched egg- The nest was placed among the 

 roots of an old stump and was well concealed from observation by weeds 

 and grasses. It was constructed of small twigs, leaves, and grasses. The 

 egg which I secured measured .71 X .53 of an inch and corresponded with 

 the description given in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway's 'History of North 

 American Birds,' the ground color being white with dots and blotches of 

 blended brown and purple, varying in shades and tints and forming almost 

 a wreath around the larger end. Both parent birds were seen and fully 

 identified. — Robert B. Lawrence, New York City. 



On the correct Subspecific Title of Baird's Wren (No. 719 b, A. O. U. 

 Check-List). — In their 'Biologia Centrali Americana,' Aves (1879), P- 9°> 

 Messrs. Salvin and Godman very properly change the current name for 

 this form of Bewick's Wren (T/iryot/iorus bezvickii leucogastcr Baird), 

 their reasons for so doing being thus explained : 



"In differentiating these races [of T. bezvickii], Prof. Baird thought 

 that he recognized in the Mexican bird the Troglodytes leucogastra of 

 Gould, and hence properly called it Thryothorus bewickii, var. leucogaster^ 

 But Mr. Gould's name has since been found to apply to a very different 



