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have been accustomed to find year by year two or three Blackburnian 

 Warblers ( Dendroica fused) singing throughout the month of May upon 

 their arrival, and continuing in June on the testimony of other observers, 

 giving assurance that the Blackburnian is a resident bird in this wood. 

 The Blue-headed Vireo (Lanivireo solitarius solitarius) is also found year 

 by year singing there much beyond the time of its migration. Both of 

 these species were represented in song on May 24, June 19, and July 2 of 

 the present year. Thus was had the unusual experience of hearing a Blue- 

 winged Warbler sing with one ear and Blackburnian Warblers with the 

 other, as probable nesting species. If the testimony presented may be 

 accepted as furnishing reasonably reliable evidence of a nesting of Blue- 

 winged Warbler in this locality in 1918, it may go on record as the second 

 authentic occurrence in this region of Massachusetts, South Sudbury 

 having the distinction of possessing both nestings within her borders. — 

 Horace W. Wright, Boston, Mass. 



A Winter Record of Bewick's Wren from Northern Virginia. — 



On my way to the cars at Falls Church, Va., the morning of February 8, 

 1918, I was surprised by having a Bewick's Wren (Thryomanes bewicki 

 bewicki) fly up from the ground and alight on the top of a fence within a 

 foot or so of my face. From the fence it flew down to a small stub where 

 it sat for about a half minute, affording me an excellent unobstructed view 

 at only a few feet distance, before it finally hopped under a box bush where 

 I had to leave it. The past winter has been one of the worst in this vicinity 

 for a number of years, with the ground covered with snow and ice from 

 early in December until after the event recorded above. Bewick's Wren 

 is more or less rare and local in this locality at any time but not an uncom- 

 mon breeding bird some fifty miles west of here, in the Blue Ridge Moun- 

 tains. — J. H. Riley, Washington, D. C. 



Russet-backed Thrush (Hylocichla ustulata ustulata) in New 

 Mexico. — Some time ago, in identifying some other specimens of the 

 genus Hylocichla in the United States National Museum, the writer 

 unearthed a specimen of Hylocichla ustulata ustulata from New Mexico. 

 It is No. 130328, U. S. Nat. Mus., an adult male, taken by Dr. E. A. 

 Mearns on May 3, 1892, about one hundred miles west of El Paso, at 

 the so-called "Upper Corner" Monument No. 40 on the Mexican bound- 

 ary line, which is in the extreme southwestern corner of Luna County, 

 New Mexico. There is, so far as I am aware, no previous authentic 

 record of this subspecies from the State of New Mexico. — Harry C. 

 Oberholser, Washington, D. C. 



Notes from the Vicinity of Washington, D. C. — The following notes 

 from localities within ten miles of the Capitol seem worthy of record. 



Hydrochelidon nigra surinamensis. Black Tern. — Three were 

 seen May 3, 1917, and about a dozen May 12, 1917, over Hunting Creek, 



