200 General Notes. I April 



my collection. The color is quite as deep, however. Measurements (in 

 millimetres) : wing, 84; tail, 77.5; bill from nostril, 8.5; tarsus, 19.5- To 

 place the bird's identity beyond dispute I sent it to Mr. Robert Ridgway, 

 who writes me as follows : — 



"I have carefully compared your Jii7ico with our specimens of '■J. ridg- 

 ■zvavi,' and find that it is, essentially, the same bird. Our specimens, 

 however, are in breeding dress (they are adult male and female, obtained 

 at Ft.Bridger, 'Utah,' — now Wyoming, — May 20, 1S5S), and consequently 

 are hardly comparable. Still, there is no more difference between your 

 bird, which is an autumnal male, and the Ft. Bridger male than there is 

 between fall and spring specimens of J. annectens, J. caniceps, or the 

 other species of the genus. 



"I still have doubts as to the validity of this bird as a species or even as 

 a permanent race, on account of the circumstance that its characters are 

 an exact combination of those of J. annectens and J. caniceps. In other 

 words, it may be regarded either as a J. caniceps with pink sides or a J. 

 annectens with 'red' back." 



The bird was found anions; the willows on Boulder Creek, associated 

 with J. annectens, caniceps, aikeni, and shufeldti. Boulder is directly at 

 the base of the foothills, where numerous Juncos may often be found 

 when not one can be discovered away from the sheltering hills. — R. C. 

 McGregor, Denver, Colorado. 



Unusual Habits of Lincoln's Sparrow. — While collecting Warblers from 

 the top of an elm tree May 23, 1892, I shot two Lincoln's Sparrows, one 

 male and one female. Their manner of feeding and hopping about the 

 branches so closely resembled the Warblers with which they were associ- 

 ated that I could scarcely distinguish one from the other. As this species 

 is of retiring habits and supposed to be confined to low bushes and 

 thickets, I consider this worthy of note. — Willard E. Treat, East 

 Hartford, Connecticut. 



Wintering of Regulus calendula at Washington, D. C. — On December 

 5, 1892, I saw and positively identified a single Ruby-crowned Kinglet in 

 the grounds of the Department of Agriculture, and also saw what was 

 presumably the same individual on January 5, 6, and 14, this period cov- 

 ering some of the most severe weather ever known here. This is the first 

 record for the District of the species wintering. — W. E. Clyde Todd, 

 Washington, D. C. 



Notes on Some Connecticut Birds. — Hydrochelidon nigra surinamen- 

 sis. — A young bird of this species was killed here August 29, 1892, and 

 is in my collection. There were four of them together, but. the others 

 could not be obtained. The previous records for the State are two speci- 

 mens shot at Goose Island and Milford (Merriam, Rev. Bds. Conn., 1877, 

 135)- 



