86 General Notes. Ljan. 



five such birds, two from Massachusetts ($, Brookline, April 26, 1895, 

 wing 2.88 ; 5 , April 28, 1894, wing 2.90), evidently late northern migrants ; 

 two from Rhode Island, wintering birds {$ , Middletovvn, Dec. 22, 1900, 

 wing 2.89, (J. wing 2.86), and one from Florida (J, Kissimmee, Dec. 5, 

 1892, wing 2.88). 



In the collections there will probably be found many specimens referable 

 to this race, which, though I am adverse to naming slight natural and to 

 be expected differences, are widely different enough to deserve a name, // 

 the present accepted races of sand-wichensis are to be recognized. — 

 Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Long-wood, Mass. 



The Cardinal in Cambridge, Mass. — On Wednesday, November 27, 

 1901, I saw and identified a male Cardinal {Cardinalis cardtnalis) near 

 my house in Cambridge. It had already been seen on the 19th of the 

 month about a quarter of a mile away, and it seems probable that it will 

 winter about Cambridge. It does not seem likely that it is an escaped 

 cage-bird, because males of many species of birds are known to often wan- 

 der north after the breeding season ; also because it very rarely occurs 

 that cage-birds escape or are released, and such infrequent occurrences 

 certainly cannot account for the dozen or more records of the Cardinal in 

 Massachusetts. The fact that most of these records are of males seems to 

 be explained by the tendency of male birds to go north after breeding, 

 and also by their brilliant plumage causing them to be more often noticed 

 than the olive-gray female. 



In this connection I should also like to make a correction in my record 

 of the Hooded Warbler ( IVihonia mitrata), which appeared in the October 

 number of ' The Auk ' (XVIII, p. 397), in which I stated that I knew of no 

 other record of this bird for Massachusetts. On investigating the mat- 

 ter, however, I find that there are four previous records. Therefore the 

 present status of this bird in Massachusetts is as follows: (i) Brookline, 

 one taken June 25, 1879; (2) Taunton, two birds noted May 8, 18SS; (3) 

 Provincetown, a male taken June 25, 1S88; (4) Fi-amingham, a male taken 

 October 15, 1893; (5) Cambridge, a male noted September 5, 1901. It is 

 also said to have formerly bred about Pittsfield in the western part of the 

 State. — Arthur C. Comey, Cambridge, Mass. 



The Cardinal Breeding at Sioux City, Iowa. — On October 2, 1901, I 

 wrote to Mr. R. Ridgway, Washington, D. C, as follows: "In this con- 

 nection permit me to report that three weeks ago last Sunday, I saw an adult 

 male C. virginianus [ = Cardinalis cardinalis\ at Riverside, a park where 

 the timber and underbrush is almost in its original state, five miles from 

 this [Sioux] city along the Sioux River. I learned from the superin- 

 tendent of the park that he had seen within the past two years something 

 like a dozen of these birds, old and young. I have frequently made visits 

 to these almost primitive woods for manj' years, about thirty, and never 

 before saw anything of them. Last Sunday, however, I observed a ' voung- 



