Vol ; 8 J 6 IU ] General Notes. 87 



Notes on Long Island Birds. — Melospiza lincolni. — In the Parkville 

 woods along the edge of a thicket, a small, active sparrow was seen on 

 the morning of Sept. 28, 1S95. A recent moderate fall of temperature 

 made the morning an animated scene of bird-migration, and this bird 

 would hardly have attracted attention among many other small birds had 

 •it not been for his alert and ill-at-ease manner. This fact alone led me to 

 think him not a Song nor a Savanna Sparrow, either of which he might 

 readily have been mistaken for. He made no sound by means of which 

 aid could be gained in his identification, but stood on the horizontal 

 limb of a small tree, with jerking tail and erected occipital feathers, as 

 though resenting the gaze of an intruder. It proved a Lincoln's Sparrow. 

 The specimen is an adult female. 



Vireo gilvus. — On the morning of Sept. 16, 1S95, while on the Boule- 

 vard just beyond Prospect Park, Brooklyn, I was attracted by a sustained 

 melodious warble, which for the moment I was unable to place, but which 

 I afterward remembered having been formerly fairly familiar with in 

 New Jersey as the supposed song of the Warbling Vireo. I had never 

 verified this supposition as it had always been heard in the shade trees of 

 village streets. In this case the bird was in one of the outer of the four 

 rows of shade trees which extent! the length of the Boulevard. At my 

 approach it flew into one of a cross row of maple trees, about forty yards 

 from that in which it had first been heard, where it was secured. It 

 proved to be an adult male Warbling Vireo — a bird which on Long 

 Island I had often searched and listened for in vain For some reason. 

 this bird on Long Island is either rare or often overlooked. The latter 

 seems the less likely in that its song is very characteristic, as well as 

 being one of the sweetest, and most apt to attract attention of all our 

 singing birds. Its song is" a refrain of trilled notes, varying up-hill and 

 down in harmonious modulations, with only the merest pause between 

 each effort of, it must be, twenty-five or thirty notes. 



Helminthophila peregrina. — On the same morning on which the 

 Lincoln's Sparrow was obtained (Sept. 2S, 1S95), and but a few minutes 

 later, a specimen quite as rare was captured; namely, the Tennessee 

 Warbler. This bird was in the woods and when first seen was on the 

 ground, from whence it flew into the low pendant branches of a tree, about 

 four feet from the ground. No bird-note that I could identifv as his was 

 heard. The specimen is an adult male. 



Dendroica tigrina. — At Canaisee Village, Sept. 12, 1894, a Warbler of 

 rather obscure markings was taken in the edge of a little grove of trees 

 which stands back but a few yards from the salt-grass meadows. This 

 and a male Black-throated Blue Warbler were seen in the lower branches 

 of a thickly foliaged tree overhanging a heavy undergrowth of blackbern 

 brambles and tall weeds. It was rather carelessly labeled as a Magnolia 

 Warbler, which, of course, it does not in the least resemble. It was 

 rediscovered and my diagnosis of it as the Cape May Warbler was kindh 

 verified bv Mr. Chapman. The specimen is an adult female. 



