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the junipers in a little valley, and was accompanied by its mate, which 

 Mr. Vernon Bailey was fortunate enough to collect at the same time. 

 These captures extend the known range of the species one hundred miles 

 north of Queen Mine, in the White Mountains of Nevada (cf. Fisher, North 

 American Fauna, No. 7, 1893, page 76), its previous limit in this region. 

 They also form the northernmost record of the species. — Harry C. Ober- 

 holser, Washington, D. C. 



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The Slate-colored Junco (Junco hycmalis hyemalis) breeding near 

 Boston. — On June 4, 1918, Miss Agnes J. Galligan discovered a pair of 

 Juncos {Junco hyemalis hyemalis) in some rocky oak woods in West 

 Roxbury, Mass. I visited the place with her on June 7 and found the male 

 bird with one young one in the speckled juvenal plumage, pretty well 

 fledged and able to fly. We did not see the female, and we saw but the 

 one young bird, though I thought at one time that I heard another calling. 

 The note of the young was a trisyllabic zl-zi-zl. On July 1, Miss Galligan 

 found the pair in another locality, about an eighth of a mile away, feeding 

 a young bird which was evidently of a second brood, as it could not fly 

 and was apparently just out of the nest. I visited the spot July 3, but 

 saw nothing of the birds in the limited time at my disposal, though I heard 

 the male singing. The breeding of the Junco in eastern Massachusetts 

 is sufficiently uncommon to make the occurrence seem worth recording, 

 especially as it is evident that two broods were hatched. West Roxbury 

 is a part of Boston, and I know of no previous record of the breeding of this 

 species within the limits of that city. — Francis H. Allen, West Roxbury, 

 Mass. 



Blue-winged Warbler Once More Nesting at South Sudbury, 

 Mass. — On May 24, 1918, in a walk in South Sudbury in the Wayside Inn 

 region, I came upon a Blue-winged Warbler ( Vermivora pinus) singing. 

 The location was within a mile of the nesting in 1909, recorded in ' The 

 Auk,' Vol. XXVI, October, 1909, pp. 337-345. The bird disappeared after 

 several repetitions of his song before I had secured a view of him. But 

 there remained in my mind no uncertainty that I had heard the song of a 

 Blue-wing. This assurance, however, was happily substantiated by Mr. 

 Richard M. Marble, to whom I had mentioned the occurrence, who, 

 visiting the locality on June 19 and again on July 2, both times found the 

 bird singing at the same spot where I had heard him on May 26. Mr. 

 Marble writes me that he regrets that he did not have time to look for the 

 nest. But the fact of a male in song being present from May 24 to July 2, 

 a period of forty days, would indicate with reasonable certainty that once 

 more a pair of Blue-wings had nested in this region. The locality was 

 quite different from that of 1909, being a rather dry extent of second 

 growth in the rear of a sandy woodlot of white pines and a variety of 

 deciduous trees, but well supplied with undergrowth. In this woodlot we 



