104 General Notes. [j^^ 



(April), and late summer (July 25) birds, and they are all true maritimus, 

 which is indeed an anomaly, as the form that breeds on the North Carolina 

 coast east of Pamlico Sound is P. m. macgillivraii (see Bishop, Proc. Linn. 

 Soc. N. Y., Dec. 19, 1904, pp. 57, 58). 



Although these specimens, taken in Warsaw Sound, have been identified 

 by a well-known ornithologist as Aminos piza maritima macgillivraii, they 

 are without doubt representatives of P. m. maritimus. 



A specimen of macgillivraii taken by me on July 25, 1900, 9 ad., although 

 in very ragged plumage, must have been an exceedingly dark bird when 

 in fresh plumage for the pileum and back are very deeply colored, and the 

 mesial streak on the middle tail feathers is yet very wide despite the skele- 

 tonized condition of the tail. 



I question whether Macgillivray's Sparrow breeds in Georgia or in 

 Florida, for the birds taken there in the breeding season were in worn plum- 

 age and the characters which differentiate maritimus from macgillivraii 

 being obliterated the birds were assumed to be macgillivraii on account of 

 its more southern distribution. In view of the unique breeding range of 

 P. m. macgillivraii I should not be at all surprised if it is in reality a species, 

 as its breeding range suggests specific difference. A female macgillivraii 

 in my collection taken by me on February 11, 1891, near Charleston, is as 

 black on the upper parts as P. nigrescens. — Arthur T. Wayne, Mount 

 Pleasant, S. C. 



The Bohemian Waxwing in Vermont in Summer. — It has been my 

 good fortune to spend the time from August 7 to the 20th at Willoughby 

 Lake this summer. Lake Willoughby, in the town of Westmore in north- 

 ern Vermont, about 25 miles from the Canadian border, is a well known 

 region to the botanists and ornithologists of New England. On the sandy 

 beach at the south end of the lake, between Mt. Pisgah and Mt. Hor there 

 are many birches; some are bare, dead trees, while other are well covered 

 with leaves. 



While at the beach August 18 a few Cedar Birds were about the trees, 

 but on a dead tree, a Black-throated Green Warbler was looking over 

 the branches, when what I first thought was a Cedar Bird flew to the same 

 tree, and remained there a long time. As I looked at it, it seemed larger 

 than a Cedar Bird; then I saw some white wing bars plainly. I watched 

 it for twenty minutes or more, and when I left the beach it was still there. 



Since then I have had a dead Cedar Bird in my hand to examine, and 

 this bird at Willoughby was certainly larger, and the white wing bars 

 (3 I think) were plainly to be seen. There was plenty of time to look at 

 the biid, for it remained just where it perched at first as long as I watched 

 it, and there were no leaves or branches to hide it. 



I reported this incident to Dr. Walter Faxon of Cambridge, who is famil- 

 iar with this region. I take the liberty to quote his reply: " I do not 

 doubt that the bird you saw was the Bohemian Waxwing. The size and 

 particularly the white wing-bars would distinguish it from the Cedar Bird." 

 — Anna E. Cobb, Providence, R. I. 



