102 General Notes. [^ u n k 



so it can be seen that this species covers the distance between the two 

 places in a little more than two weeks.— Arthur T. Wayne, Mount 

 Pleasant, S. C. 



Macgillivray's Seaside Sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus macgillivraii) 

 with Fourteen Rectrices.— On April 12, 1906, I shot an adult female 

 Macgillivray's Seaside Sparrow which had fourteen tail feathers, one of 

 them, being shot, dropped out upon examining the specimen. 



As I stated in 'The Auk,' Vol. XXII, 1905, p. 398, in regard to Hen- 

 slow's Sparrow with thirteen rectrices, "the additional rectrix may prove 

 to be a character peculiar to females of the Fringillidse, and not to the 

 males in certain genera," and the capture of this bird with fourteen rec- 

 trices seems to confirm my suspicions. The specimen was taken near 

 Mount Pleasant, S. C. — ■ Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



The Junco Breeding at Wellfleet. Mass.— On June 16, 1906, at Well- 

 fleet, Cape Cod, Mass., I flushed a Junco (Junco hyemalis) from beside a 

 wood-road. On investigation I found a nest, containing four young birds. 

 It was placed under a tussock of grass about four feet from the road, run- 

 ning parallel to a pond. — John A. Remick, Jr., Boston, Mass. 



A New White-throat Song. — Last summer it was my good fortune to 

 hear a charming song from a White-throated Sparrow, which, so far as I 

 am aware, has never before been published. In the woods of Thornton, 

 N. H., the notes of Zonotrichia albicollis are among the most character- 

 istic sounds in the early summer, growing less frequent toward the end 

 of July, and ceasing altogether early in August. The normal song, as I 

 have heard it there, is as follows: 



(The exact pitch of this and my other notations I have no means of deter- 

 mining, and have therefore put them into the key of G, following therein 

 similar notations observed by Mr. Henry Oldys of Washington, who has 

 kindly furnished me with a number of interesting White-throat songs.) 

 On the 24th of July, 1906, about noon, my attention was attracted by 

 the following fragment of a song from a White-throat: 



i i . r 



m 



A few minutes later I heard the same song in its complete form, as fol- 

 lows: 



£ 1 — t=t=^=t=£=t = £=t=£=^ d 



