2 1 O General Notes. [lApril 



Ammodramus leconteii at Yemassee, S. C. — I have been on the lookout 

 for Leconte's Sparrow every winter since I shot the one which Mr. Brew- 

 ster recorded in 'The Auk' for July, iSS6, but have been unsuccessful until 

 February 9 of this year when I shot a fine male as he flew up from an old 

 abandoned rice-field. This bird is the only one I have seen since I shot 

 the one in 1886; and the bird can be considered as only a straggler to lower 

 South Carolina. — Arthur T. Wayne, Charlestott, S. C. 



Ammodramus henslowrii wintering in large numbers at Yemassee, S. C. 



— I shot during the months of January and February of this year thirty-six 

 Henslow's Sparrows; several seen to fall in the high grass could not be 

 found. In the series of thirty-six examples before me they vary greatly 

 in size and markings. Some have the pectoral band so dark and heavy as 

 to hide the other surface markings, and at a glance one would pronounce 

 the breast unbroken jet black. 



I have never found this species wintering here before. It is a very rare 

 bird with us, and is only to be found in any numbers in the fall. — Arthur 

 T. Wayne, Charleston, S. C. 



Occurrence of Vireo flavoviridis at Riverside, California. — On October 

 I, 18S7. I noticed, while hunting in the Santa Ana River bottom, a little 

 bird flitting about in the top of a high cotton-Avood tree. It was secured, 

 and to my surprise, I found it to be a Vireo flavoviridis. Mr. Ridgway, 

 to whom I sent it for positive identification, says it is the most highly 

 colored specimen he has seen. This Vireo is confined to the Lower Rio 

 Grande Valley and southward, therefore my specimen must have been a 

 straggler. — Will W. Price, Riverside, Cala. 



The Northern Range of Oporornis formosa in Illinois.— May 23, 1887, 

 I secured a female of Oporornis formosa one-half mile southeast of Grand 

 Crossing, among the undergrowth in a small isolated patch of woods. 

 The finding of this species in that locality is an event of unusual interest. 

 A specimen has been reported to me by my friend, Mr. H. K. Coale, of 

 Chicago, as found by Mr. R. B. Trouslot at Piano, Illinois, a few years 

 ago. These records mark the northern limit of this species in this State, 

 so far as I know. Mr. Robert Ridgway, of Washington writes, however, 

 in answer to my inquiries, that the only record of the occurrence of O. 

 formosa, to his knowledge, in northern Illinois is that mentioned by Mr. 

 E. W. Nelson (Bull. Essex Inst., VIII, 1876, p. loi), who gives the species 

 as being "a very rare summer visitant from Southern Illinois," but on 

 what evidence Mr. Nelson based his statement is not specifically men- 

 tioned — Joseph L. Hancock, Chicago, III. 



Protonotaria citrea in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.^ — On May 

 15, 1887, I took a high-plumaged male Prothonotary Warbler near Areola, 

 Montgomery County, Pa. It was feeding well up in a tall larch on the 

 banks of Perkiomen Creek. This was the only one of the species seen at 



