^"'■iQ^i'"] General Notes. 397 



As is the case with all birds during their migrations, stragglers are 

 left along the way either from exhaustion, injury or for less apparent 

 reasons, so that we have winter records for Nova Scotia, Vermont and 

 Wisconsin, due to some of the above causes, and for the same reasons 

 we also have late May records for Longspurs in the southernmost States 

 in which they winter. — Reginald Heber 1\o'v;^,]r., Long-wood, Afass. 



The Western Savanna Sparrow in North Carolina. — In looking over 

 the Savanna Sparrows in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy of 

 Natural Sciences, my attention was called to a marked variation from the 

 typical eastern form exhibited by the birds of the Hoopes Collection. 

 This series, consisting of fourteen birds, was taken in the vicinity of Ra- 

 leigh, North Carolina by H. H. and C. S. Brimley. The difference con- 

 sists principally in the shorter and more finely pointed bill and in a less 

 degree by the grayer plumage. A comparison established the fact that 

 these specimens were identical with breeding birds of what is probably 

 the western form (Ammodramus sandiuichensis alaiidinus) taken in North 

 Dakota. 



The dates of capture of the specimens from North Carolina are as fol- 

 lows: 



Jan. 5, 18S3. April 30, 1890. 



Jan. 14, 188S. May i, iSqo. 



Dec. 29, 1890. April 17, 1891. 



Nov. II, 1S91. April I, 1892. 



Oct. 17, 1892. April 21, 1892. 



Dec. 20, 1892. May i, 1893. 



Jan. 7, 1893. May II, 1893. 



The fact that these records can be arranged in two groups, separated 

 by the months of February and March, suggests that the birds are tran- 

 sients. Again, their numbers and the extended period of time during 

 wliich thev were taken negative the theory that they are stragglers. 



Thes« records should be interesting in connection with the observations 

 of Mr. Loomis who has recorded the occurrences of western birds in 

 Chester County. South Carolina. — Herbert L. Coggins, Germattio-wn, 

 Pa. 



The Hooded \A^arbler in Massachusetts. — On the fifth of this month 

 (September, 1901) I identified an adult male Hooded Warbler {Wilsonta 

 mitrata) in a line of old privet bushes in the Harvard Botanical Garden 

 of this citv. Although 1 did not kill the bird, there is no doubt as to its 

 identit\, for I was often not more than five feet from it and easily made 

 out everv characteristic of the species. I know of no other record of this 

 species for Massachusetts. — Arthur C. Comey, Comhridge, Mass. 



Nesting of the Carolina Wren {Thryothorus ludovicianiis^ in Southern 

 Massachusetts. — My voung friend Mr. Henry S. Forbes has kindly 



