I 1 6 General Notes. \ January 



are not at present in collections enough properly prepared and unworn 

 breeding specimens oi skiifeldti io render a comparison of their characters 

 conclusive. — Frank M. Chapman, American Museum of Natural His 

 tory, Ne-iuTork City. 



Black-throated Bunting [Sj>iza americaua) on Long Island, N, Y. — 

 A young male of this species was shot at Blithewood, Long Island, on 

 Aug. 25. The bird was in bad company when it met its fate, for it had 

 joined a flock of English Sparrows in their depredations upon a neighbor- 

 ing oat-field. The specimen is a young male, the black throat indicated 

 only by bounding streaks of that color, and a black tip here and there 

 among the throat feathers. — Frank E. Johnson, Parkville, Long Island, 



N. r. 



Breeding of Dendroica maculosa in Western Pennsylvania. — While 

 on a collecting trip in Butler and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania, in 

 May, 1SS9, I had the good fortune to find the Magnolia Warbler nesting. 

 The discovery was made in the narrow valley — they are rarely a hundred 

 feet wide — of one of the brooks emptying into Buffalo Creek, about six 

 miles north of the town of Freeport. On May 30, while rummaging 

 about in a bushy growth of ^oung hemlock saplings, I found a nest 

 placed about three feet from the ground in the midst of one of them. It 

 was made of slender, blackish, dead twigs with fine weed-stems and 

 horsehair for lining. On June i the nest contained three eggs, and on 

 the 3d I saw the female on the nest in which now a fourth egg had been 

 laid. She left her place, and though I waited for her to return to it. in 

 order that I might complete the identification by shooting her as she flew 

 from the nest, she refused to do so, and in company with her mate 

 hovered uneasily about until nightfall. On my return early the next 

 morning the female left the nest at my approach, and a moment later lay 

 dead at my feet. Examining her at my leisure, I saw there was no mistake 

 in my identification, and when later I took the precaution to compare the 

 bird with the description in Coues's Key, it agreed in every particular. — 

 W. E. Clyde Todd, Beaver, Beaver County, Petiti. 



Correction. — In my ' Revised Catalogue of the Birds of Kansas' I de- 

 scribed what I then supposed to be the nest and eggs of the Sycamore 

 Warbler {Dendroica dominica albilora). I am now satisfied that the 

 evidence is not reliable upon which the entry was based. 



I have met with the birds upon several occasions in the State, during 

 the summer months, on the banks of the Neosho River, and always in or 

 about the large sycamore trees; but I have never been so fortunate as to 

 find their nest, neither can I find any authentic description of their nest 

 and eggs. They undoubtedly nest in the tree tops, like the Eastern bird, 

 D. dominica. Information in regard to their nesting habits, etc., is very 

 desirable. — N. S. Goss, Topeka, Kansas, 



