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the middle of May, i8S8, at tlie Uattennan Ranch in the foothills of the 

 Huachuca Mountains, ten miles north of the Mexican border in Cochise 

 County, Arizona. The specimen was shot by Mr. O. C. Smith of Tomb- 

 stone, A. T., from a live oak tree on the ranch, and was in the California 

 Academy of Science, with the Price collection of Arizona Birds, until 

 presented to me by Mr. Smith tlie past winter. — Oxiio C. Poling, Ari- 

 zoiia. 



The First Plumage of Otocoris alpestris strigata Hensh. — $ juv. 

 (No. 50S0, collection of (i. S. Miller. Jr., Salem, Marion Co., Oregon) 

 June 29, 1S90; Allen Rhodes collectoi) : Plumage of dorsal surface seal 

 brown, the feathers everywhere edged with ochraceous-buft", which color 

 is most conspicuous on the upper tail-coverts, rump, cervix, remiges and 

 wing-coverts; interscapulars, scapulars and some of the tertials and wing- 

 coverts tipped with dirtj' white; rectrices slightly darker than remiges and 

 general dorsal surface, the outer pair tipped and edged externalh' with 

 dirty white, the inner pair much suffused with ochraceous-buff; venti^al 

 surface pure white; chin and throat slightly marked with dusky ; jugulum, 

 sides, and flanks ochraceous-buff, flecked, especially on the jugulum, with 

 obscure brownish; cheeks, lores and forehead mixed brown and v/hitish. 

 The first plumage of this form resembles more closely the young of fra- 

 ticola than it does the corresponding stage of any of the western races. 

 The white edgings of the feathers of the back, so conspicuous in the 

 young of merrilli-, are here replaced by ochraceous-buff; while tiie dark 

 ground color above makes it a very different looking bird from the young 

 of any of the other forms found in the western United States. From the 

 first plumage of practlcola I am able to find no distinguishing character, 

 except that the buff is everywhere brighter than in the brightest/y-c/c/Zco/rt 

 that I have seen. The young oi pracficola are \&ry variable in the shade 

 of both ground color and markings, and it will be interesting to see whether 

 further material will show as great a range of variability in the young of 

 the present race. — G. S. Miller, Jr., Cambridge^ Mass. 



European Goldfinch (^Cai-duclis cardnclis) Breeding in Worcester 

 County, Mass. — -Tiiere have been brought tf) the rooms of the Natural 

 History Society in this city a nest and five eggs of the European Gold- 

 finch (C cardnclis'). with the skin of the female. They were taken in 

 Northville, a suburb of this city, July 11, 1890, by Mr. F. S. Wilder. The 

 nest was in an apple tree within se\-en feet from the ground, and corre- 

 sponds to the description in Ridgway's 'Manual,' except that it contains 

 no moss. The female is in fair breeding plumage. The male was not 

 seen. — Geo. Churchill, JVorcesfe)-, Alass. 



Description of the Nests and Eggs of Dendroica graciae and Contopus 

 pertinax. — Among my oological accessions of the past season were the 

 nests and eggs of two species not described heretofore, viz., /^rwc^-^j/V^^ 

 gracicF, Grace's Warbler, and Contopus pcrtinnx. Coues's Flycatcher. l)()lli 



