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giving as a reason that his conspicuous dress was a target for his 

 enemies ; which is the usual way we try to make other people think we 

 know something. So I will now describe the following year's events, 

 which was 1895. A female Scarlet Tanager came and built exactly on 

 the same spot where the previous year's nest was ; hence I infer it was 

 the same female. But what of her gay lord, was he the same male ? If so 

 he must have undergone a great change of character, for he showed 

 himself about the tree frequently and sang on the next tree very often 

 during the day. But the most remarkable thing of all was, he spied a 

 nest of Chippy Sparrows (Spizella socialis) with young ones. To my 

 surprise he kept going to the nest and fed the baby Chippys, much to 

 the disgust of their parents, who kept hovering around with food in their 

 mouths which the little things could not take, after being fed so often 

 by their gorgeous foster father. This was continued for a number of 

 days. When his own precious young burst their shells and required 

 attention he then left the Chippys to their rightful parents, which were 

 now outgrowing their narrow domicile, being duly cared for. Mr. 

 Tanager now paid as faithful attention to his own family, feeding them 

 very frequently and singing his sweet song between feeding and collecting 

 food. Seldom was he away, near sunset, longer than ten or fifteen 

 minutes. So I am at a loss to account for the shyness shown the pre- 

 vious year, unless this was a second husband of the same female Tana- 

 ger ; and then the extraordinary fact of his feeding other birds' young 

 ones is one of the exceptions that make the study of birds a pleasant 

 recreation. — Henry Hales, Ridgewood, N. Y. 



The Occurrence in Nebraska of Vireo flavoviridis. — A specimen of the 

 Yellow-green Vireo, Vireo flavoviridis, shot at Long Pine, Brown County, 

 has just been received by the Curator of the Museum of the University of 

 Nebraska. This is the first one reported in this State. It is a rare Vireo 

 for the entire United States having been reported, as far as the author can 

 learn, from Texas, California, and Canada only. 



The specimen was shot and donated by the Rev. J. M. Bates of Long 

 Pine, who has already done a great deal to further the knowledge of our 

 native birds. 



This adds one more to Prof. Lawrence Bruner's List of Nebraska Birds, 

 recently published by the Nebraska State Horticultural Society. The total 

 number of species and sub-species for the State is now 418. — Erwin H. 

 Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebr. 



Helminthophila rubricapilla vs. Helminthophila ruficapilla. — The 

 A. O. U. Committee appear to have ignored their rule "Once a synonvm 

 always a synonym," in the case of the Nashville Warbler. The West 

 Indian Dendroica ruficapilla was called Sylvia ruficapilla by Latham in 

 1790 (Ind. Orn., II, 540). Wilson applied the same name to the Nash- 

 ville Warbler in 1S11 (Amer. Orn., Ill, 120). Whether by design or by 



