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(Auk, XXIV, 343). Of these the type specimen (in Mr. Brewster's col- 

 lection) has a very faint tinge of yellow on the breast, the others showed 

 no trace of yellow on the lower parts. Then there is the specimen recorded 

 in this number of 'The Auk,' Hyde Park, Mass., June 13, 1907, cT, H. G. 

 Higbee, which is midway between H. pinus and H. leucobronchialis, heavily 

 washed with yellow from the base of the bill to the under tail coverts. — 

 Walter Faxon, Lexington, Mass. 



A Correction. — In Mr. Ridgway's 'Birds of North and Middle America,' 

 Part II, 1902, p. 572, the citation " Dendroica cazrulea Loomis, Auk, VIII, 

 1891, 170 (Chester Co., South Carolina, Apr. 15 to May 3 and Oct. 4 to 26) " 

 should be cancelled and transferred to the Cape May Warbler (Dendroica 

 tigrina). The correct citation for Dendroica ccerulea is "Loomis, Auk, 

 VIII, 1891, 170 (Chester Co., South Carolina, April 13 to 30, and Aug. 8 

 to Oct. 22)." — Arthur T. Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



The Northern Water- Thrush again Nesting in Massachusetts. — In 1905 

 I recorded in ' The Auk ' the nesting of the Northern Water Thrush (Seiurus 

 noveboracensis) in Lancaster, Mass. I found two sets of eggs, May 21, 

 1905, well incubated. 



This year, June 23, 1907, not in the same swamp, but near it, I found 

 a brood of young of this species that could fly. I shot one. It would seem 

 to established the fact that this bird breeds regularly in this locality. 



The eggs must again have been laid early in May, despite the cold spring 

 and the late arrival of the north-bound migrating Water-Thrushes. — 

 John E. Thayer, Lancaster, Mass. 



A Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) in Lexington, Mass., in Winter and 

 Summer. — A Mockingbird appeared near my house in Lexington on the 

 8th of February, 1907, and was seen by me at intervals up to the 29th of 

 March. On the 31st of March and the 4th of April a Mockingbird, doubt- 

 less the same one, was seen by several persons in another part of the town, 

 about a mile to the eastward. He was neither seen nor heard again until 

 the 9th and 10th of July, when he reappeared near my house. This bird 

 sung at the end of March, early April, and on both the days when he was 

 seen in July. He was an unusually fine singer, even for a Mockingbird. 

 Among his very perfect imitations the notes of the Phoebe and Great 

 Crested Flycatcher were conspicuous. The winter of 1906-07, it should 

 be remembered, was an unusually cold one in eastern Massachusetts. — 

 Walter Faxon, Lexington, Mass. 



The Great Carolina Wren in Southern Rhode Island. — As has been 

 previously noted in 'The Auk' by the present writer, this bird has been 

 within recent years known to summer in southern Rhode Island. Last 

 year and year before (1905-1906) there was no indication of his presence 

 in the neighborhood of Peace Dale in South Kingstown in the Narragansett 



