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on the top of a dead willow tree which was in an impenetrable 

 ravine. I was within twenty feet of the tree upon which this Fly- 

 catcher was perched, but I would have mutilated the specimen by 

 shooting it from where I was standing, and I could not retreat 

 as I was in a road flanked on both sides by the jungle ; there- 

 fore as it could not be obtained without being mutilated I deter- 

 mined not to shoot it. There is no question whatever as to the 

 correct determination of this species, as the specimen was posi- 

 tively identified. The bird was seen some days after the occur- 

 rence of a very severe storm which raged on the coast of South 

 Carolina, and this record makes the first for the coast region. 

 This species undoubtedly occurs at the proper seasons in the 

 mountainous parts of the State, but it is a rara avis on the coast. 



Coturniculus henslowii. Henslow's Sparrow. — On 

 January 28, 1905, I took an adult female Henslow's Sparrow, 

 which has thirteen rectrices. This makes the second species of 

 the Fringillidae that I have taken which had thirteen rectrices. 

 The first was Bachman's Finch (Peuma cestivalis bachfnanii), 

 female, February 5, 1902. The additional rectrix may prove to 

 be a character peculiar to females of the Fringillidae, and not to 

 the males in certain genera. 



Piranga rubra. Summer Tanager. — A very adult male of 

 this species was taken by the writer on May 22, 1903. This 

 specimen has seven normal rectrices, but upon close inspection it 

 was found that the missing tail-feathers were being renewed — 

 not of the color of the adult male, but of the color of the female 

 and young males. That this specimen was retrogressing is plainly 

 shown by the five rectrices which were being moulted. These 

 five feathers are about an inch in length, and the color is yel- 

 lowish olive-green. It would seem but natural that once this 

 species attained the adult plumage, each moult would be the 

 same. As an illustration of the progressive stage of plumage of 

 the Summer Tanager, I have a specimen (young male) taken 

 May 5, 1903, which is half red and half yellowish green, or in 

 other words mottled. This bird had evidently passed through a 

 post-juvenal moult. There are eleven yellowish olive feathers in 

 the tail, which are very much worn, in fact some are skeletonized, 

 which shows that these were never moulted after the "first plum- 



