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contain ova varying in size from a No. lo shot to that of a small pea. 

 The skin of this bird is at present in my son's collection. — Dr. R. W. 

 Shiifcldf, Smithsonian Institution, WasJ/imrton, D. C. 



Capture of Geothlypis poliocephala palpebralis in Cameron County, 

 Texas • — Recently Mr. Charles K. Worthen of Warsaw, Illinois, sent me 

 for identification a specimen of Geothlypis poliocep/iala palpebralis 

 (Ridgw.). an adult male, taken by one of his collectors at Brownsville, 

 Cameron County, Texas, Jnne 8, 1S90. On my questioning the correct- 

 ness of the alleged locality, Mr. Worthen made special inquiries respect- 

 ing the capture of this specimen, and writes me that his collector assures 

 liim the specimen"tvrt5 taken in Brownsville, Texas." It being the first one 

 he had seen, he sent it to Mr. Worthen for identification. This specimen 

 is now in Mr. Worthen's collection. 



This forms the first record of the species for the United States. Mr. 

 George B. Sennett, however, has in his collection a single specimen from 

 Aldema, Tamaulipas, Mexico, collected June 13, 18S8. These specimens 

 are both referable to the form Mr. Ridgway has recognized as Geothlypis 

 palpebralis (Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, p. 526), — one of the several closely 

 allied forms of the G. poliocephala group. — ^J. A. Allen, Am. Mas. Nat. 

 Hist., JVew York City. 



Bachman's \A^arbler {Helminthophila bachmani) at Raleigh, N. C. — - 

 On April 27, 1891, while walking near a small woodland stream I heard 

 the note of a Warbler unfamiliar to me but which reminded me of the 

 song of the Parula without the rise at the end. The sound came appar- 

 ently from the low bushes in the brook, but I could see no bird. I fol- 

 lowed the sound up the brook till I reached a thicket at its head, where I 

 waited. On hearing the notes again I crossed the brook and found the 

 bird was in the woods in front of me. In a few seconds I saw a bird with 

 a black throat about 15 ft. from the ground in the lower limbs of a small 

 oak, and immediately after collected my first Bachman's Warbler. While 

 in the oak the bird suggested Dendroica virens, but the song prevented 

 my mistaking it for that species. 



This specimen was apparently in breeding condition as the testes meas- 

 ured 5i^ by 44 mm., but I could detect no other birds with it, except a pair 

 of Bluegray Gnatcatchers which were building near the same brook. 



On May 22, I took my second specimen of this species, in a woodland 

 thicket on the edge of Walnut Creek, within a few feet of where the above 

 mentioned brook flows into the creek. I may here mention that since 

 killing the first specimen I had on three occasions followed and killed 

 Wormeating Warblers, on account of the similarity of their song to that 

 of Bachman's Warbler. When the song of Bachman's Warbler fell on my 

 ears on this second occasion, I remarked to my brother, who was with me, 

 " I hear a Warbler singing that is either a Wormeater or a Bachman's." I 

 followed the notes up the creek till at last I caught sight of a bird with a 

 black throat in a small birch and immediately shot it. Another bird flew 



