no General Notes. \\'^ 



and during June, 1894, in the Huachuca and Chiricahua Mountains, Ari- 

 zona, by Mr. W. W. Price and hiis assistants. 



Comparing this series with several males of D. auduboni in very high 

 breeding plumage from the Sierra Nevada of Central California, I find 

 that the gap between D. auduboni and D. nigrijrons is nearly bridged 

 over. — Leverett M. Loomis, California Academy of Sciences, San 

 Francisco. 



Sequence of Plumages in the Black-throated Blue Warbler. In my 



paper on the Molting of Birds (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1896, 159) I 

 erroneously stated that the young males of Dendroica ccBrulescens in the 

 first winter plumage were brown like the adult female. Attention was 

 called to this error by Mr. Wm. Palmer in reviewing my paper in 'The 

 Auk' (1S96, p. 242). As I find, however, that many persons still regard 

 some of the brown fall birds as young males it may be well to call attention 

 to an interesting specimen in my collection, secured in Wyoming County, 

 Pennsylvania, July 14, 1900. This bird is molting from the juvenal to the 

 first winter plumage, the olive brown feathers of the earlier dress being seen 

 on the back, sides of the body and under the tail, while most of the remaining 

 feathers are of the black, blue and white plumage of the ' old male.' The 

 flight feathers are not shed at this molt. All the feathers of the throat are 

 frosted with white. This character as well as the olive edgings to the wing 

 feathers will serve to distinguish males of the year from old birds. — Wit- 

 MER Stone, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Granatellus venustus in Sinaloa. — The California Academy of Sciences 

 possesses three specimens of this rare Warbler collected by Mr. P. O. 

 Simons in Sinaloa. Two of the birds were secured at Tatemalis — a male, 

 June 4, and a female, June 17, 1897. The third example (a male) was 

 obtained April 10, of the same year at Rosario. 



The following is a description of the female : Above drab with top of 

 head tinged with wood brown, deepening toward forehead ; above ear- 

 coverts a broad line of buff, extending nearly to the middle of the upper 

 eyelid; ear-coverts wood brown, lores paler; wings broccoli brown; tail 

 brown with three lateral feathers tipped with white, the outer web of 

 outer one almost wholly white; lower parts whitish, with a broad buff 

 band across chest; sides of body washed with buff; under tail-coverts 

 largely tinged with buff; wing 2.15 in.; tail 2.50; exposed culmen .46; 

 tarsus .75. — Leverett M. Loomis, California Academy of Sciences, 

 San Prancisco. 



Maryland Yellow- throat at Sea. — On August 19. 1900, at about 3 p. m. 

 when my ship, the ' Saxonia,' eastward bound, was about 305 miles East 

 i South from Boston Light, a small bird flew up from astern and spent 

 several hours perched in various parts of the upper works. It was lively, 

 ^enerall}' shy, plump and apparently happy. It took no interest in finely 



