348 General Notes. [f^ 



year's trial, the dates of arrival obtained by a single person are on the 

 average a little more than a day later than the time the birds actually did 

 arrive. — ■ Wells W. Cooke, Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



Some Interesting Records from southern Missouri. — Helminthophila 

 bachmani. Bachman's Warbler. — I was fortunate enough to find this 

 interesting warbler on two different occasions, the first on May 2, 1907, in 

 the northwestern part of Shannon County, and the second on May 23, 

 1907, in Carter County, near Grandin. Both of these records were sur- 

 prising considering the character of the country, for these counties lie on 

 the southeastern slope of the Ozark Mountains, a dry rocky region of 

 limestone formation covered with a forest of oak and yellow pine (Pinus 

 echinata), and not at all like the swampy cypress swamps of Dunklin 

 County in the Missouri Peninsula where Mr. O. Widmann found them 

 in 1897 (Auk, XIV, p. 305). 



Helminthophila leucobronchialis. Brewster's Warbler. — On May 

 12th, 1907, in Shannon County, Mo., my attention was attracted by a 

 warbler song which I did not recognize. I soon discovered the bird and 

 on securing it found it to be an absolutely typical specimen of Brewster's 

 Warbler (No. 1531, J\ Coll. L. B. & E. S. Woodruff). The entire under 

 parts are pure white without even a suggestion of any yellow wash. The 

 entire back and neck, from crown down, bluish gray with only a few 

 feathers in the middle of the back slightly tipped with greenish, not 

 nearly so much as usually found in H. chrysoptera. On the wings is a single 

 broad patch of canary yellow. In fact this specimen, except for the 

 absence of the black throat and cheek patch, would be a typical H. chrysop- 

 tera, and the only similarity to H. pinus is the narrow black line through 

 the eye. There is nothing about this specimen to substantiate the theory 

 that Brewster's Warbler may be a color phase of H. pinus. The song, 

 though similar in character to that of H. pinus, was much weaker and 

 more varied. 



This makes the first record for Missouri and for any State west of the 

 Mississippi River. 



Helminthophila peregrina. Tennessee Warbler. — On May 2, 1907, 

 I secured a male Tennessee Warbler in Shannon County, Mo., which had a 

 number of coppery chestnut feathers in its crown, similar to those of a 

 Nashville Warbler. In all other respects it was a typical Tennessee 

 Warbler. (No. 1500, d\ Coll. of L. B. & E. S. Woodruff.) 



Dendroica vigorsii. Pine Warbler. — ■ This warbler has not been here- 

 tofore recorded as breeding in Missouri but I found it common in the pine 

 woods of both Shannon and Carter Counties from March 8 till I left on 

 June 8. Though I found no nests, I saw the birds gathering nesting 

 material and carrying it up into pines in the latter part of March, and on 

 April 25, I secured a nestling too young to fly which had fallen from its 

 nest and was being fed on the ground by its parents. I also found a 

 number of full grown young birds in the first plumage before the middle 

 of May. 



