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ing down a road which had a very thick hedge on one side. This bird 

 was in the top of a bush when I noticed it and it bore a strong resem- 

 blance to the Grass Finch {Pooccetes gramiucus), only it was larger. I 

 fired at it with a small collecting pistol and slightly wounded it. Day 

 after day I visited the spot hoping to see the bird again. Eight days 

 afterwards, April 19, early one morning I saw the same bird within a few 

 yards of the place where I had wounded it. It was perched on a low 

 bush and upon seeing me flew down into a field where a lot of White- 

 throated Sparrows were feeding. This time I secured it. Upon exami- 

 nation I was completely puzzled for it was a new bird to me. I had in 

 mind the Lark Bunting {Calainosfiza melanocorys), and speciinens of 

 this bird, kindly sent me by iSIessrs. Brewster and Chapman, confirmed my 

 suspicions. The bird is an adult female and evidently wintered, as it was 

 moulting about the throat. It seems strange that this bird was taken 

 within 200 jards of the place where I shot the Missouri Skylark, and 

 Little Brown Crane, recorded in recent numbers of 'The Auk.' — Arthur 

 T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



Summer Redbird at Saybrook, Conn. — I have recently added another 

 unexpected acquisition to \r\\ list of things new in a fine male specimen of 

 the Summer Redbird (^Piranga rubra') which I secured here in Old Sav- 

 brook on the 27th of April last (1S95). It seemed to be perfectly con- 

 tented, as if ignorant that it had wandered off, and whistled as cheerily 

 in the cold rain storm then prevailing as if it was still under sunny skies. 

 This is the first of its species that I have ever seen here. — J. N. Clark, 

 Saybrook, Conn. 



Prothonotary Warbler near New York City. — In the early morning of 

 June 2 last, near Yonkers, New York, I had the great pleasure of seeing 

 a Prothonotary Warbler {^Protonotaria citrea') and listening to its song. 

 The exact locality was rather more than a mile east of the Hudson River, 

 and half that distance beyond Van Cortlandt Park at the northern limit of 

 New York City. In the woods at this point a shallow pond, or pool, 

 spreads itself among a scattered grouping of trees and bushes. This was 

 clearly the attraction which kept the bird about the spot, enabling me to 

 watch it at leisure. It was not at all shj', and much of tiie time was so 

 near to me that, though my field-glass was not dispensed with, there was 

 no need of it for purpose of identification. The exquisite bii'd kept con- 

 stantly over the water, frequently coming into conspicuous view on open 

 horizontal branches and sometimes clinging momentarily against a tree- 

 trunk. Its usual motions were leisurely, the movements of the head 

 sometimes quite Vireonine. 



The song, which was repeated at short intervals, though not at all re- 

 markable, was very distinctive, and not fairly to be compared with any 

 other known to me. Listening to it, it seemed as if an unpractised ear 

 might perhaps have associated it with the Golden-crowned Thrush, not- 



