Vol. XX 

 1Q04 



'] General Notes. •^Sy 



18S3, shot after procuring three sets of eggs." Further comment is 

 hardly necessary when I state that both birds are Baird's Sparrow {Cot- 

 nrniculus bairdii), ihe "male" being an adult, the "female" a juvenal 

 specimen. From the peculiar make-up of the skins I have no hesitation 

 in saying that they were taken by Mr. Krider on a trip which he took to 

 North Dakota with Dr. W. L. Abbott in 188 1. Dr. Detwiller obtained 

 many specimens from Krider. — Witmer Stone, Academy 0/ Natural 

 Sciences, Philadelphia, Pa. 



What has happened to the Martins ? — Last summer the Martins 

 (^Progne subis) were suddenly either destroyed or driven away from their 

 boxes in this town where for many years they have been domiciled. I 

 watched interestedly for their arrival this spring, and was delighted on 

 May 8, 1904, to see one about their old homes ; but my delight has been 

 short-lived, as the one lone bird disappeared and no others have come- 

 Does it inean that the largest Concord colony I know of, where for many 

 years at least fifteen pairs have nested, is wiped out? I would like to 

 know if other New England towns have so mysteriously lost their Mar- 

 tins. — Reginald Heber Howe, Jr., Concord, Mass. 



Breeding of Lawrence Warbler in New York City. — It is with 

 pleasure that I am able to place on record some notes of the breeding of 

 Lawrence Warbler {liehninthophila la-.vrencei). This is, I believe, the 

 twelfth individual of this species to be recorded, and the first instance of 

 its breeding, the other eleven birds being migrants. 



The discovery of the nest was first made hy Dr. Wiegmann early in 

 June of the present year, and many of the following notes are from his 

 observations. 



Occurrence. — On May 15, 1903, Dr. Wiegmann observed a Lawrence 

 Warbler in the New York Zoological Park, and on June 6 of last year I 

 made a note of this species in my journal, but the glimpse I had of the 

 bird was so brief that I then recorded the identification as not sufiiciently 

 certain for publication. The bird was first observed in the Park on May 

 18 of this year, and almost every day thereafter until June 16. 



Plumage. — The individual Lawrence Warbler under consideration was 

 exactly like the type specimen of Herrick as described in Ridgway's 

 'Birds of North and Middle America' (U.S. Nat. Mus. Bull. No. 50, 

 Part II, p. 452) except that the gular patch of black extended over the 

 entire chin. The bird was in finest plumage, the markings of the throat 

 and lores being jet black. The wing bars were white with just a tinge of 

 yellow when seen in a favorable light at short range. 



Habitat. — The bird's breeding place in the Zoological Park was in an 

 open hardwood growth, near one of the Society's buildings, hardly a 

 stone's throw from the Bird House. 



Song. — This resembled very closely the dreamy zree-e-e, zwee-e-e-e of 

 the Blue-winged Warbler (//. piuiis). An acute ear, however, could 



