88 General Notes. [A"^|^ 



The Philadelphia Vireo in Vermont. — On tlie 19th of September, 1900, 

 I secured a Philadelphia Vireo { Vireo Philadelphia^ at Bread Loaf, 

 Addison Co., Vermont, 1500 feet above the .sea. It i.s an adult male in 

 perfect plumage. In looking over the ' Bulletin ' of the Nuttall Club and 

 ' The Auk ' I find this is the second record for the State, the first having 

 been taken August 11, 1SS9, bj Mr. F. H. Hitchcock, at Pittsford, about 

 twentj-five miles south of Bread Loaf. — C.B. Isham, Ncvj York City. 



The Yellow Vireo in Sinaloa. — The collection of the California 

 Academy of Sciences contains a female example of Vireo hypochryscus 

 from Rbsario, Sinaloa ; it was shot April 21, 1897, by Mr. P. O. Simons. 

 This species, I believe, has not been previously reported north of the 

 Tres Marias Islands. — Leverett M. Loomis, California Academy of 

 Sciences., San Francisco. 



Nesting of the Tennessee Warbler in British Columbia. — I have lately 

 come into possession of a nest and four eggs of the Tennessee Warbler 

 {Helminthopkila peregrina) which, owing to their rarity, seem worthy of 

 a description in ' The Auk.' 



This set was taken on June 15, 1901, at Carpenter Mountain, Cariboo, 

 British Columbia, and the female was shot off the nest by Mr. Allan 

 Brooks, who writes ine as follows : " You ask for a short account of Ten- 

 nessee Warbler's nesting. The birds made their first appearance on the 

 22nd of Maj', and were common the same day. From that time I heard 

 their song in almost every clump of trees. A great number drew off to 

 the northward but a good many remained. The\' generally frequented 

 the clumps of aspen trees and Norway pines, where the ground was covered 

 ■with a thick growth of dry pine grass. 



"As I saw no female nor evidence of nesting I gave the birds three weeks 

 and started out to look for their nests on the 15th of June. Luckily I 

 soon found a female off her nest, and after an hour's watching, during 

 which time I suffered torments from the mosquitoes, she at last dropped 

 down to her nest. On walking up she fluttered out, and flew off some 

 distance, returning shortly with two others of the same species, when I 

 put her off and shot her. 



"x\ hundred yards further on I came across another female, probably 

 one of the two that returned with the first one. I took up a good position 

 and wailed twenty minutes, when she darted down to the ground and 

 disappeared, I went up and was just going to kill her with my little .38 

 caliber collecting pistol as she fluttered off, when out of the tail of my 

 eye I saw the nest contained newly hatched young. 



" I found another nest the same day by carefully quartering a likely 

 piece of ground, and found several the next week, with young also. 



"The nests were always on the ground, sometimes at the foot of a small 

 service berr_y bush or twig. They were all arched over by the dry pine 



