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Hooded Warbler (Wilsonia citrina) at Detroit, Michigan. — On 



May 6, 1920, I saw an adult male of the Hooded Warbler {Wilsonia citrina) 

 at Belle Isle, the island park of Detroit. The bird was seen within a dis- 

 tance of ten feet in low bushes, and carefully watched for some little time. 

 From long familiarity with the species at Washington, D. C, the identi- 

 fication is beyond question. I have never been able to add this species 

 to the list of Birds of southeastern Michigan, although I have a record 

 of a male seen by myself, September 19, 1903, also at Belle Isle, a record 

 that in after years I have held open to question. The nearest record 

 adjacent to this region is that of a young female secured in the fall of 1880 

 at Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, by Dr. Van Fossen, which is in the col- 

 lection of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. — Bradshaw H. 

 Swales, U. S. National Museum, Washington, D. C. 



Penthestes hudsonicus hudsonicus in North Dakota. —An inter- 

 esting new bird for North Dakota is reported by Mr. Alfred H. Eastgate, 

 of Bottineau, North Dakota, to whom the writer is indebted for the privi- 

 lege of placing it on permanent record. While working near Upsilon 

 Lake, .west of St. John, in the Turtle Mountains, North Dakota, on No- 

 vember 13, 1919, Mr. Eastgate noted two or three strange Chickadees, 

 but could not approach them closely enough to be sure of their identity. 

 Later in the same day one was found dead, and it proved to be the Hud- 

 sonian Chickadee, Penthestes hudsonicus hudsonicus. — Harry C. Obbr- 

 holser, Washington, D. C. 



Labrador Brown-cap Chickadee (Penthestes hudsonicus nigricans) 

 at Rochester, Monroe County, New York. — Two birds individuals 

 of this subspecies were observed by the undersigned on November 6, 1919. 

 They were identified by the much darker mouse-colored cap than that 

 of the Acadian Chickadee (Penthestes hudsonicus littoralis) with which 

 we became very well acquainted in the winter of 1913-1914. Another 

 point which seems characteristic is the activity of the Labrador as com- 

 pared with the rather logy action of the Acadian, the latter bird could 

 almost be picked off from a tree, while the Labrador seems even more 

 active than our common Black-cap Chickadee (Penthestes atricapillus). 

 The notes, too, are different from either of the others. This bird uses 

 only three notes at a time, thus "Chicka dee dee," and they are pitched 

 higher than those of the Acadian. Except on November 6 and 8, 1919, 

 only one bird was seen at a time. From December 20, 1919, on to the time 

 he left on March 30, 1920, he came to the Herbarium feeding station for 

 suet. As this suet is packed into holes bored in a stick and the stick is 

 hung on the window casing we were able to watch the bird at very close 

 quarters by merely looking through the window. He was observed on 98 

 days during his stay with us. — W. L. G. Edson and R. E. Horsey, High- 

 land Park, Rochester, N. Y. 



