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collection. This specimen has been hitherto unrecorded. I am indebted 

 to Dr. Murphey for the privilege of announcing its capture, which is the 

 first record for Georgia. In the South Atlantic States this species was 

 taken at Chester, South Carolina, by Mr. Leverett M. Loomis, on April 

 18, 1884. There is also a Florida record in Coues's ' Birds of the Northwest,' 

 p. 188. — Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



A new Colorado Record for the White-winged Crossbill (Loxia leu- 

 coptera) . — On each of several different mornings during the latter part of 

 last August, a pair of these birds were seen and closely observed by me 

 at a ranch situated on a small tributary of upper Bear Creek, in Clear 

 Creek County, Colo., at an altitude of about 8400 feet. My observations 

 were made at very close range, with the aid of an excellent opera-glass, 

 and were fully corroborated by Mr. Charles C. Truesdell of Syracuse, New 

 York, as well as by other members of our party. On each of the three 

 or four occasions when we saw them, the birds flew down to a small stream 

 and as we were generally within fifteen feet of them, we enjoyed most 

 perfect opportunities to make them out in every detail of their "field 

 characters." The male and female staid close to each other, permitting 

 us to note in a most satisfactory way, their characteristic cross bills and 

 conspicuous, white double wing-bars, tending to, but not quite attaining, 

 confluence, as well as all other external features of form, marking and 

 coloration that characterize the species. On one occasion a female Mexi- 

 can Crossbill (L. curvirostra stricklandi) joined the White-wings at the 

 water's edge, and associated with them in a friendly way for several min- 

 utes, thus affording to me an excellent chance for comparison. The 

 greater compactness and elegance, and smaller size, of the female leucop- 

 tera were noticeable. The Mexican, after remaining with the others for 

 a time, joined her mate in a near-by spruce tree, where both staid motion- 

 less, though waiting for their aristocratic friends to conclude their repast 

 (whatever it was). When the latter took flight the Mexican Crossbills 

 left their perch and followed closely after. — Ernest Knaebel, Denver, 

 Col. 



An Early Date for the Arrival of the Ipswich Sparrow (Passerculus 

 princeps) on the Coast of South Carolina. — Being desirous of ascertain- 

 ing the date upon which this species makes its appearance in the autumn, 

 I visited Long Island (near Charleston) on November 3, 1906, and am 

 satisfied that I flushed one, but was unable to secure it as it was very wild. 

 On November 6 I again visited the island and succeeded in obtaining a 

 female about four miles from the place where the specimen was flushed on 

 the 3d. The specimen taken was moulting the feathers about the throat. 



According to Mr. Brewster, 1 the Ipswich Sparrow occurs along the 

 coast of Massachusetts by the middle of October. From Boston or Cape 

 Cod to Charleston by the coast line is very nearly one thousand miles, 



1 W. Brewster, in H. D. Minot's Land-birds and Game-birds of New England, ed. 

 2, 1895, 201. 



