250 General Notes, [^^fi 



Note on Hapalopteron familiare (Kittl.)- — For many years there 

 have been in the collection of the Philadelphia Academy two specimens of 

 a bird resembling in general style of plumage a faded Kentucky Warbler 

 (Oporornis fonnosa). They formed part of the mounted collection of Dr. T. 

 B. Wilson, and while one was without data of any kind the other bore a tag 

 containing the following which I have only recently been able to decipher, 

 " Is. Arzobispo Port Lloyd Lat. 27.05 36 N. Long. 139 51. 16 E. Samedi 

 9 Mars. 1850 Yeux noirs." 



Recent^ I accidentally came across the description of Ixos familiaris 

 Kittlitz in a footnote p. 120, Vol. VI, Brit. Mus. Cat. of Birds and at once 

 recognized that it applied to our birds. Seebohm in the Ibis, 1890, p. 100, 

 refers to the rediscovery of the species by Mr. Hoist in 1889 and Blackiston 

 and Pryer mention two live specimens in the Tokio Museum (Trans. As. 

 Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 138), but I can find no other records of the bird, and 

 our specimens therefore have considerable historical interest being appar- 

 ently the first ones obtained after the original discovery of the species. — 

 WiTMER Stone, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 



Hermit Thrush Wintering at Easton, Pa. — On January 1, 1908, I 

 had the great pleasure of seeing a Hermit Thrush (Hylncichla guttata 

 pallasi) in a woodland on the outskirts of Easton, Pa. Realizing that this 

 was an unseasonable date for this species, I took great care in establishing 

 its identity. Its peculiar habit of raising and lowering the tail with an ac- 

 companying flap of the wings together with the characteristic coloring of 

 the upper parts — tail a brighter brown than the head — named it con- 

 clusively. Through January and February the bird was seen seven times, 

 the last time being on February 29, so I had ample time to observe it. 

 During these two months it remained in the same piece of woodland and 

 some second-growth adjoining. The bird endured vigorous weather, for 

 the thermometer several times fell almost to zero. The Thrush showed a 

 great fondness for the berries of the hackberry (Celtis occidentalis) and 

 spent much of its time feeding in one of these trees. 



Four years later, on January 1, 1912, I saw another Hermit Thrush in a 

 wood near where the one had been seen in 1908. This bird was also 

 closely watched and satisfactorily identified. However, I did not see it 

 again although I looked for it on several different occasions. — Edward 

 J. F. Marx, Easton, Pa. 



Correction. — On page 107 of the January Auk the size of the Water 

 Fowl Cage in the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago is given as "40 X 15 feet," 

 a mistake of the compositor — it being 50 X 150 feet. The idea of 200 wild 

 ducks, geese and other birds being confined in a cage 40 X 15 feet is of 

 course ridiculous.— Henry K. Coale, Highland Park, III. 



Greenland Wheatear Seen in Massachusetts. — On Sept. 17, 1910, 1 

 saw a Wheatear at Pigeon Cove, Mass., at the extreme point of Cape Ann, 



