308 (u-i/cral IVotcs. r.l"'y 



Contopus virens. — May 2. 



Passerina cyanea. — May 2. 



Dendroica caerulescens. — May 2. (Norbeck, Md. : C. Abert). 



Habia ludoviciana. — May 3. 



Icteria virens. — May 3. 



Vireo olivaceus. — May 3. 



Icterus spurius. — May 3. (C. I. Goodale). 



Trochilus colubris. — May 3. (C. I. Goodale). 



Chordeiles virginianus. — May 3. 



Dendroica blackburniae. — May 4. (Takoma, D. C; R. W. Shufeldt). 

 As showing the considerably earlier migration west ol the Alleghanies, 

 it may be mentioned that the National Museum has just received a speci- 

 men of this bird, shot April 22 at East Saginaw, Michigan, by Mr. Peter 

 Lepp, of that place. 



Tyrannus tyrannus. — May 4. 



Icterus galbula.— May 4. (Takoma, D. C. ; R. W. Shufeldt). 



Melanerpes erythrocephalus. — May 4. 



Compsothlypis americana. — Ma3'4. (C. I. Goodale). ^ — Robert Ridg- 

 WAY, Wa!ihi7igto)i, D. C. 



Notes on some Birds of Grays Harbor, Washington. — An important 

 paper on the avifauna of the Northwest Coast has been recently published 

 by Mr. R. H. Lawrence,* entitled : 'A Preliminary List of the Birds of the 

 Gray's Harbor Region, Washington.' It contains the results of observa- 

 tions made at various times between April, 1S90, and July, 1891, and in- 

 cludes notes on 92 species. 



While collecting on the Northwest Coast in the summer of 1S89, for the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, I spent two weeks and a half at Aberdeen 

 on Grays Harbor, and although the time was mainly devoted to collecting 

 mammals, several species of birds not mentioned in Lawrence's list came 

 under my observation. On account of the peculiar interest of the birds of 

 this region which is within the area of maximum rainfall of the Northwest 

 Coast, the following notes, published through the courtesy of Dr. 

 C. Hart Merriam, Chief of the Division of Ornithology of the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, may be of interest as supplementing those of Mr. 

 Lawrence. 



Aberdeen, the largest town on Grays Harbor, is built on a 'tide flat' on 

 the north side of the Chehalis at the mouth of the Wishkah River. At 

 the time of my visit (August 5-22, 1889) it was practically in the midst 

 of an extensive coniferous forest, the only outlook being down the 

 Chehalis River which furnished almost the only means of communication 

 between the neighboring towns of Cosmopolis and Hoquiam, since the 

 trail through the 'timber' to the latter place was seldom used. In the 

 dense forests, which consist mainly of gigantic spruces {Ptcea sitckenst's), 

 hemlocks {Tsuga merfensiana), and cedars {Thuya gigaritea')., carpeted 



* Auk, IX, Jan. 1892, 39-47. 



