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In June, 1SS2, Mr. J. A. Moore killed a bird at Jones's Point, Va., near 

 Washington; in May, 18S1, Mr. O. N. Bryan secured one and saw another 

 at Marshall Hall, Md. ; and we know of the occurrence of three others on 

 the Potomac River, D. C, within the past few years. 



Conurus carolinensis. — In September, 1865, while gunning for Sora on 

 the Potomac River, Mr. Edward Derrick fired into a flock of strange birds 

 flying overhead, killing several, which proved to be Carolina Paroquets. 

 He had one mounted, and kept the specimen in his house for a number of 

 years. Other parties on the marsh at the same time shot numbers of the 

 birds. Descriptions furnished by Mr. Derrick and careful questioning by 

 ourselves, leave no doubt as to the identity of the birds. 



Contopus borealis. — The claims of this species to a place in our list 

 rest upon Mr. Ridgway's observations near Fall's Church, Va., a few 

 miles from this city, where several birds were noticed in September, 18S1. 

 Further west in Virginia the species cannot be considered very rare, in- 

 dividuals having been observed for three or four successive summers by 

 one of the writers; and Dr. A. K. Fisher has taken a specimen in the 

 Bull Run Mountains; these latter occurrences, however, are a considera- 

 ble distance beyond our faunal limits. 



Otocoris alpestris praticola. — Two Horned Larks in the collection of 

 William Palmer have been identified by Mr. Henshaw as belonging to his 

 race praticola. They were taken in February, 1881, and were in com- 

 pany with numbers of typical O. alpestris* 



Melospiza lincolni. — This Sparrow was added to our faunaby Mr. 

 Henshaw, who collected three specimens in May, 1885 (Coll. H. W. H., 

 Nos. 5621, 5622, 5623). William Palmer has taken two birds ; and Mr. Ridg- 

 way has noticed the species on several occasions near Laurel, Md. 



Dendroica kirtlandi. — A specimen of this bird, now in the National 

 Museum (No. 111,878), was shot by William Palmer, September 25, 18S7, 

 on a w6oded hilltop near Fort Myer, Va., in the same locality in which 

 the collector had previously taken HebnintJwphila leucobronchialis. The 

 bird was moving slowly about in the underbrush, and was at first thought 

 to be the Yellow Palm Warbler, from the habit of jerking the tail char- 

 acteristic of that species. Just one week later another bird of the same 

 species was observed in this locality under such circumstances as to make 

 the identification a surety. Kirtland's Warbler is new to the Atlantic 

 slope of the United States, Cleveland, Ohio, we believe, being the eastern- 

 most limit of the range of the species hitherto recorded. 



Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis. — Grinnell's Water-Thrush, as Mr. 

 Ridgway informs us, has not been previously recorded from east of Illi- 

 nois. He has, however, identified two specimens taken in Virginia, near 

 Washington, on May 11, 1S79, ^"'^ May 5, 1S85 (Coll. W. P., Nos. 620, 

 1376). 



* On February 16, 1888. some months after these notes were sent to 'The Auk,' 

 eighteen specimens of this variety were taken by William Palmer near Washington 

 from a flock of fifty or sixty birds, that had been noticed in the vicinity throughout the 

 winter. About half a dozen other specimens have recently been obtained by various 

 collectors. 



