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The testimony of every bird student with whom I have talked, either 

 here or in Central Park, New York, is in entire harmony with my own 

 experience. — Robt. Barbour, Montclair, N. J. 



Notes on Six Birds from Georgia. — Sturnus vulgaris. Starling. 

 — A young male was shot near Savannah by Mr. Ernest Cunningham on 

 November 11, 1917, and brought to Mr. Gilbert R. Rossignol, Jr., who 

 preserved it and presented the specimen to me. This is the first occurrence 

 of this bird in Georgia. 



Piranga erythromelas. Scarlet Tanager. — Among a collection of 

 birds, made near Savannah by Mr. Troup D. Perry, and which I have 

 acquired, is a male of this species that was taken by Mr. Perry on October 

 14, 1906. The Scarlet Tanager is a very rare bird in the south Atlantic 

 States particularly on or near the coast and I have yet to detect it in the 

 autumn in South Carolina. 



During the past thirty-five years that I have devoted to ornithology in 

 South Carolina I have seen but four birds, three of which I procured, as 

 follows: April 30, 1889, an adult male taken on Oakland plantation, 

 Christ Church Parish; May 4, 1911, a fine adult male taken, the late Dr. 

 Edgar A. Mearns being at my side when I shot it; May 1, 1912, a male in 

 very high plumage, Dr. Louis B. Bishop being near me when I shot it. 

 The other specimen was seen on April 29, 1884, on the plantation of Mr. 

 F. W. Heyward near Oakley and about thirty odd miles from Charleston. 



Vermivora pinus. Blue-winged Warbler. — Mr. Gilbert R. Rossig- 

 nol, Jr., shot on September 6, 1909, near Savannah, a beautiful male of 

 this bird and presented it to me. The Blue-winged Warbler is very rare 

 in the south Atlantic States and I have yet to see one alive. 



Dendroica dominica albilora. Sycamore Warbler. — I have an 

 adult male of this western form of D. dominica taken by Mr. D. V. Hem- 

 bree at Roswell, Ga. (near Atlanta), on July 2, 1913. This bird was from 

 the collection of Mr. Troup D. Perry and labeled by Mr. Hembree " Yel- 

 low-throated Warbler." The superciliary stripe is almost immaculate 

 white, there being the faintest tinge of yellow when placed under a magnify- 

 ing glass. This bird is in high plumage and the yellow of throat intense 

 and hence not faded, and without doubt was mated and raised a brood of 

 young at Roswell for the date on which it was taken was too early for a 

 migrant from some other region, as birds do not migrate in the autumn, 

 that is land birds, until they have renewed their plumage — and this one 

 had not done so. 



Thryomanes bewicki bewicki. Bewick's Wren. — Mr. Perry shot 

 near Savannah on March 19, 1909, a fine male Bewick's Wren, which is 

 the only one he has ever seen during all the years he has been observing 

 birds near his home in Savannah. This specimen is now in my collection. 

 Bewick's Wren is a bird of the Upper Austral Zone during the breeding 

 season in North and South Carolina as well as Georgia, and it is resident 

 even in the mountains of North Carolina where I have seen and heard it 



