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97 1909 by Mr. G. H. Champlin, I obtained in the flesh through the kind- 

 ness of Mr C. R. Hooker. This bird (length, 36.19, extent, 89, wing 

 23 88 tail 14 62 and exposed culmen, 2.52 inches) is so much nearer Bald 

 Eagles from Alaska and British Columbia than to those from Virginia and 

 Florida that I have referred it to aia«mnM,s. „ -n wit 7- 



In this connection I wish to correct my record of a Gray Sea Eagle {Hah(Be- 

 tus albicilla) from British Columbia (Auk, XXII, 1905, p. 79), as I now 

 believe, after a study of about forty of the two species in the collections 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, Dr. Dwight and myself, 

 that that eagle is merely a young H. I. alascanus in faded plumage, ihis 

 Connecticut bird resembles even more closely young H. albicilla th^n does 

 the British Columbia one, differing from it only in having the feathers o 

 the nape and hind-neck longer and more lanceolate and the dark terminal 

 markings of the scapulars and interscapulars more sharply defined. 



Scotiaptex nebulosa. Great Gray Owl.- Dr. Sanford showed me 

 on April 13, 1907, a freshly mounted Great Gray Owl, the toes of which 

 were still flexible, which he had just purchased at a restaurant m New 

 Haven This bird evidently had been recently killed, and Dr. bantord 

 was assured it was shot in East Haven the last of March I know of no 

 other certain record since Linsley (Am. Jour. Sci., XLIV, 1843, p ^56). 

 Acanthis hornemamii exilipes. Hoary Redpoll.- Although Red- 

 polls {Acanthis Unaria) were formerly occasionally common m soothe™ Con- 

 necticut and more rarely recorded in recent years, not untfl the fall ot 190b 

 did I ever succeed in finding this species. On November 24 of that year 

 while collecting in East Haven with my friend Mr. E. Seymour Woodruff, 

 whose untimely death was a great and permanent loss both to his friends 

 and to ornithology, we found a large flock of Redpolls and from it were 

 fortunate enough to secure a single young female Hoary Redpoll, now in 

 my collection. This is the first record in Connecticut. 



Vermivora leucobronchialis. Brewster's Warbler.— Although 1 

 have collected near New Haven some twenty males of this phase of plum- 

 age of V. pinus, not until May 23, 1910, did I discover one without trace 

 of yellow on back or lower parts. A rather interesting fact is that while 

 practically all the others had the song of V. pinus this bird had that of 

 V chrysoptera, and had the wing bars of the latter. 



What I believe is the first young bird to be recorded showing this phase 

 of plumage is a young male which I collected in New Haven on September 

 12 1907, in first winter plumage. On this the yellow below is much paler 

 thin in typical H. pinus and fades into white on the throat and sides of 



the neck. ^^ T\,r on lono 



Vermivora lawrencei. Law^rence's Warbler.— On May 20, lyuy, 

 I collected an adult male less than two hundred yards from where those 

 recorded in 'The Auk' for 1906, Vol. XXIII, p. 345, were taken. This 

 bird closely resembles that taken May 24, 1906, but the black of the 

 throat is purer. The capture of three males at the same place in different 

 years would tend to show that this phase of plumage is hereditary. 



