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the scapulars on each side are conspicuously edged with white. 

 The marking is only slightly less extensive than in a specimen 

 of Pipilo ffiaciilatus oregonus taken at Victoria, B. C, on August 

 I, 1888. Eastern Towhees with spotted scapulars have been 

 recorded before but such specimens are always of interest. 



Junco hyemalis {Linn.). 



An eastern Junco {$ ad., No. 4956, Miller collection, North 

 Truro, Mass., April 12, 1890) has the wing-coverts tipped with 

 white so that two distinct bars are formed in each wing when the 

 feathers are properly arranged. These bars are narrower than 

 in most specimens of the w&stQxn /nnco aikeni^hwt I have seen 

 individuals of the latter in which they are less well developed 

 than in the North Truro bird. Juncos with white wing bars have 

 been found in the Eastern States before but they are of very rare 

 occurrence. 



Piranga erythromelas Vieill. 



Three adult male Scarlet Tanagers in the collection of Dr. A. K. 

 Fisher have conspicuous wing markings strongly suggestive of 

 those normally present in the western Ph-anga ludoviciana. In 

 two of these birds (No. 4017, Washington, D. C, May 18, 

 1890, and another taken at Sing Sing, N. Y., on May 22, 1880) 

 the greater coverts are almost wholly bright scarlet. In the other 

 (No. 919, Sing Sing, N. Y., May t6, 1881) the greater coverts 

 are gamboge yellow narrowly edged with black. The yellow is 

 brighter than that occupying the same position in P. ludoviciana 

 but the bar formed by it is not so broad as that of the western 

 bird. 



Ampelis cedrorum ( Vieill.) . 



x\n adult Cedar Bird (No. 5481, Miller collection. Providence, 

 R. I., February iS, 1886, J. M. Southwick), otherwise normal, 

 has the flight feathers in each wing spotted subterminally 

 with dull grayish white. These markings are as nearly alike 

 on corresponding feathers of the opposite wings as is ever the 



