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chartniin, and which were said to have passed on to the nortliward from 

 there. Two years ago, perhaps not so long (not having' my 'Auk' to reler 

 to I cannot tell), a Bachman's Warbler was sent to Washington from 

 Sombrero Light House by its keeper, and as the Sombrero is eastward and 

 north of Cape Sable, this would show a tendency of the species to migrate 

 /// the East Coast, taking Cape Sable and its vicinity as the diverging 

 point. 



"I will send you the entire series of Bachman's Warblers in a few days; 

 the collection now numbers sixteen well marked adults, two young females, 

 and two others that I at first thought to be Bachman's Warblers, but now 

 feel sure are not." 



Mr. Atkins concludes his letter of August y with some very instructive 

 notes on the migrations of other Warblers, Vireos, and the like, at the 

 point where he is located, which notes I hope to present to the readers of 

 'The Auk' at an early day in a more detailed manner than present space 

 permits. — W. E. D. Scott, Tarpon Springs, Florida. 



Dendroica coronata at Key West in Summer. — Mr. J. W. Atkins has 

 torwarded to me for examination an individual of this species taken by 

 liim at Key West, Florida, on July 28, 188S. It is an adult female bird in 

 very worn plumage. — W. E. D. Scott, Tarpon Springs, Florida. 



Breeding of the Cerulean Warbler {Dc7tdroica c(ernlea) in Niagara 

 County, New York. — On May 30, iSSS, while passing through a large wood, 

 I noticed a nest on a fork of a horizontal limb of a small basswood tree, 

 which I took to be the nest of the Least Flycatcher {Empidonax minimus). 

 I also saw a pair of birds in a large tree, near the one containing the nest, 

 but I was unable to identify them. On June 8 I found the bird on the nest, 

 and on its leaving I shot it and was surprised to find that it was a female 

 Dendroica ccerulea. The nest contained three eggs when secured, but one 

 or two fell from the nest when the bird left it. Incubation was nearly com- 

 plete, and it was with difficulty that I succeeded in saving two good speci- 

 mens and the broken shell of the third. I did not succeed in securing the 

 male, but an hour before in another piece of woods half a mile distant I 

 had shot by mistake another male of this species, which was also a surprise, 

 as I had found but two of this species during ten years' collecting in this 

 County, and they were both male birds, taken May 10, 1882, and May 11, 

 1883, and not over ten rods apart. I had come to the conclusion that they 

 were to be found here only during migration, and rarely then. On 

 leaving the woods after securing this nest, we passed into an old pasture 

 lot or clearing in which were a few small trees left standing, and while 

 digging out a set of four eggs of the Yellow-bellied Sapsucker {Sp/iyra- 

 piciis varius) I noticed another pair oi' Z>. ceerulea, and on watching them 

 found they were building a nest in a small basswood, also on the fork of 

 a horizontal limb, about twenty feet from the ground and eight feet out 

 from the trunk. I am so particular in describing the position of these 

 nests, as in ' North American Birds,' Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Vol. I, 



