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first appeared in tlie Parl< in 1S79, having prohalily crossed the Hndson 

 Ri\er from Iloboken, N. J., where some birds had been set at liberty the 

 pre\ious year. Tlie species is now common and apparently resident. 



On April 20, 1SS6, I discovered, in precisely similar situations, two nests, 

 one of v\ hich, containing five fresh eggs, has been forwarded to the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. It was placed in a pine tree, resting among the tufts 

 of long needles near the end of a slender horizontal limi), some twelve feet 

 from the ground. 



The species seems to be graduall\' extending its range, as on Mav 23, 

 1SS6, I met with a pair occup\ing a ckunp of pines six or seven miles to 

 the northward. — E. T. .\i)NEY, Nczv Vork Cilv- 



Ammodramus lecontei near Charleston. South Carolina. — During the 

 past two winters Mr. Wayne has been searching carefully for Leconte's 

 Sparrow, and his efforts are at length crowned with success, for he now 

 sends me a female, shot January- 26, 1SS6, about seven miles inland from 

 Charleston. This extends the range of the species practically to the coast 

 of South Carolina, but it is doubtful if it e\er occurs there in anything like 

 the numbers which Mr. Loomis finds in Chester County. — William 

 Brewster, Cambridge, A/iiss. 



The Cardinal Grosbeak and Tufted Titmouse breeding in Essex 

 County, New Jersey. — Although not remarkable, it may be worthy of 

 note that these two species are residents in greatly increased mmibers in 

 this \icinit\-. during m\- resiikMice here of the last three years. They are 

 quite common in suitable localities at all seasons. In 1SS4 a nest of a 

 Cardinal was brought me. and this season I found two more, containing 

 i-espectively two and three eggs each, on May 24 and May 28, whicii had 

 been incubated some days. 



Although I have not been fortunate enough to take the eggs of the 

 Tufted Tit myself, they breed in considerable numbers at Springfield, two 

 miles from here, while near Chatham a boy found two sets last year and 

 two this year, in the early part of Ma\ . — H. B. B.mley, Sou/// Onnige, 

 N. J. 



Vireo solitarius alticola at Charleston, South Carolina. — Among 

 other interesting birds collected for me by Mr. Wayne, during the past 

 winter is a typical specimen {$) of this new bird. It was shot February 

 20, 'S86. within a few miles (jf Charleston, where it may prove to be a reg- 

 ular winter resident, although all the winter and early spring specimens 

 which I have hitherto seen from that locality, as well as from Georgia 

 and Florida, have been true solitarius. — WiLLi.^M Brewster, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



Occurrence of the Prothonotary Warbler {Prototiofaria citrea) in 

 Massachusetts. — On the at^ternoon of May 9, 1SS6, I was rowing up the 

 Assabet River in Concord, Massachusetts, when my companion, Mr. D. C 



