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In point of time the present appears to be the second actual record for 

 the breeding of Bombycilla garrula within the United States. Dr. T. S. 

 Palmer calls my attention to the fact that the first published notice of the 

 species as a breeding bird within our borders is that of a Dr. C. S. Moody, 

 who recorded the discovery of a nest and five eggs in the vicinity of Hum- 

 bird (mail Sandpoint), Bonner County, Idaho (Pacific Sportsman, Vol. 2, 

 June, 1905, p. 270). Mr. F. M. Dille, Reservation Inspector, Biological 

 Survey, reported the Bohemian Waxwing nesting at Lake Clealum, Kittitas 

 County, Washington, on July 15, 1911. 



I am indebted to Miss May T. Cooke for calling my attention to the fact 

 that Aretas A. Saunders published a note (Condor, Vol. 14, November, 

 1912, p. 224), concerning observations of the Bohemian Waxwing made at 

 5200 feet altitude, Canadian Life Zone, on the West Fork of Sun River, 

 northern Lewis and Clark County, Montana, on August 18 and 21, 1912. 

 Saunders says the birds seen had probably nested in the vicinity. 



The records are all for Canadian Zone, or for Transition Zone not far 

 from the Canadian Zone boundary. They indicate that the Bohemian 

 Waxwing occurs, probably rarely, as a breeding bird within our borders 

 in the coniferous forests of the northern Rocky Mountain region, in a 

 district embracing northwestern Montana, northern Idaho, and northern 

 Washington. 



To summarize, records at hand for the breeding of Bombycilla garrula 

 within the United States are four in number, as follows: 1905 (nest proba- 

 bly found in 1904), Humbird (mail Sandpoint), Bonner County, Idaho, 

 Dr. C. S. Moody; 1907, June 11, Chewelah Creek, six miles in a general 

 northerly direction from Chewelah, Stevens County, Washington, E. F. 

 Gaines; 1911, July 15, Lake Clealum, Kittitas County, Washington, F. M. 

 Dille; 1912, August 18 and 21, West Fork of Sun River, northern Lewis 

 and Clark County, Montana, Aretas A. Saunders. — Walter P. Taylor, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Philadelphia Vireo ( Vireosyloa philadelphica) in North Dakota in 



Summer. — The writer found a Philadelphia Vireo (Vireosylva phila- 

 delphica) on July 8, 1917, at the south end of Carpenter Lake in the Turtle 

 Mountains, North Dakota. The bird was in full song and evidently at 

 home among the trees of a grove of aspens (Populus tremuloides) close to 

 the shore of the lake. This represents the westernmost breeding record 

 of the species for the United States, and is the first published summer 

 occurrence for North Dakota. — Harry C. Oberholser, Washington, 

 D. C. 



Prothonotary Warbler {Prolonotaria citrea) in New Jersey. — The 



rarity of the Prothonotary Warbler {Prolonotaria citrea) in the state of 

 New Jersey is sufficient reason for placing on record a specimen which 

 has for years been in the Biological Survey collection in the United States 

 National Museum. This is an adult male in perfect plumage, No. 137667 

 of the United States National Museum collection, and was taken at Morris- 



