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ton in South Carolina, one in its brown livery," there are good reasons for 

 believing that Audubon was in error and mistook the young of the White- 

 throated Sparrow {Zonotrichia albicollis) for the young of the White- 

 crowned. 



Dr. Coues also records (Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., XII, 1868, p. 115) 

 the White-crowned Sparrow for South Carolina, the observations being 

 made at Columbia. As this list contains many errors, he also undoubtedly 

 confused this bird with the WTiite-throated Sparrow, as Mr. Leverett M. 

 Loomis never met with Z. leucophrys at Chester during fo\irteen years of 

 careful research. As Dr. Coues spent but two years at Columbia, the 

 reason why so many errors appear in his ' Synopsis of the Birds of South 

 Carolina' is obvious. 



The Cliff Swallow {Petrochelidon lunifrons) has thus far remained un- 

 recorded for South Carolina. On April 28, 1898, I shot two specimens, 

 and on May 8 of the same year I secured two additional exainples, all of 

 them being taken near Mount Pleasant. On August 30, 1904, I observed 

 another specimen, but did not obtain it. These swallows were in company 

 with the Barn Swallow (Hirundo erythrogaster) and were readily identified 

 by their rufous upper tail-coverts. This is the first record of captm-e for 

 the State; although its probable occurrence was first mentioned by Dr. 

 Coues in his 'Synopsis of the Birds of South Carolina' (Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 Nat. Hist., XII, 1868, p. 111). Dr. Coues says: "I do not know of the 

 occurrence of H[irundo] lunifrons, but there is reason to believe that it 

 may pass through during its migrations." — Arthur T. Wayne, Mount 

 Pleasant, S. C. 



Recent Albinos from lUinois and Michigan. — An adult male Fox 

 Sparrow {Passerella iliaca), with decidedly albinistic plumage, was taken 

 by me at Hubbard Woods, 111., on April 7, 1909. The general appearance 

 of the bird in the field was splotched white and brown, but on closer in- 

 spection it could be seen that the whole crown was white, the back and 

 wings being rather mixed in color. The bird was not, then, bilaterally 

 albino. On the whole, the white and brown were in about the same pro- 

 portion. The whole throat and breast were white; eyes and feot natural 

 color. 



An adult female Red-winged Blackbird {Agelaius phoeniceiis) showing 

 albinistic tendencies in the first three or four primaries of the left wing, 

 I collected at Long Lake, seven miles southwest of Traverse City, Michi- 

 gan, on July 23, 1909. This bird was singled out of a flock as peculiar 

 in appearance and sccvired with some trouble. 



These two specimens were mounted by myself and presented to the 

 Chicago Academy of Sciences in September of the same year, as an addition 

 to the collection of albino birds in that institution. At that time no other 

 mounted specimens of albinos of these species were on display in that col- 

 lection. 



